A biologist and wild horse researcher is calling for stronger federal and provincial protections for the animals after 17 carcasses were found in rural British Columbia.
Wayne McCrory, who has been studying horses in the province for about two decades, said he was shocked to learn the animals had been shot to death.
RCMP Cpl. Cory Lepine, who is the sole such livestock investigator in the province, said in an interview that he believes the bodies of the horses had been there for about two weeks, based on how heavily scavenged the bodies were by the time officers arrived.Lepine said they were located various distances apart in two groups, one with six and the other with 11. He said the motive has not yet been confirmed.
“The Skeetchestn range is adjacent to this Crown range and I think the horses kind of go back and forth, so the community is used to having them there,” Lepine said.
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