Giving Week Fundraiser for the Alpine Wild Horses 2022
Our Giving Week Fundraiser is HERE, and it's BIG!!!
We need your help to fence 50 acres JUST for the current and future Alpine Wild Horses of Nirvana Mustang Sanctuary. More auctions will come in the spring and we need to be ready to help!
There are 22 reasons to give- Alzena, Silky, Raina, Azura, Aditi, Amira, Phoinix, Aster, Midnight, Muddy, Misty, Rosy, Creek, Nirvana, Fauna, Flora, Marshmallow, Willow, Iris, Cypress, Santana, and Colorado; our current 22 Alpine Wild Horses that we have rescued from kill buyers in the public auction they were all subjected to.
We have match donations once we hit each of these milestones:
- $500 by Lisa Brown when we hit $500 COMPLETED by 9:00am Nov 29
- $1,000 by Peg Just when we hit $2,000 COMPLETED by 1:40pm Nov 29
- $20,000 by Carol Connolly when we hit $20,000
Read on to learn about why we are raising these funds and what changes your contributions make for the future of the historic Alpine Wild Horses.
The Alpine Wild Horses of the Apache-Sitgreaves National forest in eastern Arizona have been the subject of brutal massacres throughout 2022. The latest massacre in October 2022 totaled 39 horses dead, plus multiple wounded and left living, including a palomino stallion who was shot in the face but still took two orphaned foals under his wing until he disappeared. 11 are still missing, and tragic events like this leave family bands shattered.
The entire Alpine Wild Horse herd consisted of around 400 horses in 2021- since, 151 have been rounded up, 39 have been shot, 11 are missing and the rest of the herd is STILL slated for complete removal by the US Forest Service, with bait and capture round ups that have begun earlier this year. Right now there are only around 200 left in the wild.
The Alpine Wild Horses are descendants of Spanish horses brought along on Fransisco Vasquez de Coronado's expedition through their home area in Arizona in the 1540's, making them LIVING HISTORY!
There have been eight auctions of the Alpine Wild Horses so far, and we have so far able to offer sanctuary to TWENTY TWO Alpine Wild Horses thanks to a beautiful team effort with the livelihood of these horses at its core. Many of the Alpines we brought home to Nirvana were in the same bands in the wild, so we are thrilled to reunite them and keep them together!
Here are some of our Alpine Wild Horse Herd enjoying their life here at Nirvana!
We need your help to help MORE of the Alpine Wild Horses who are awaiting their turn in the public auctions come spring!!
We have 140 acres STILL available at our sanctuary, WE JUST NEED TO FENCE MORE ACREAGE and we can help more of these special wild horses.
Since we have brought in so many Alpine Wild Horses, we have decided that our very first 50 acre pasture will be dedicated to the Alpine Horses, and will be officially deemed the "Alpine Pasture".
Our plan is to raise the funds we need to fence the whole pasture over the winter, and have the pasture built FIRST THING when the snow melts in the spring. We will also be repairing the pond this in the pasture- the dam is busted but once fixed it will hold water and will be a great feature for the horses to have! We will have to work HARD to reach this lofty goal!!! Together we can do it 💪🏻 💪🏻
If you can, please donate to help us create a big forever home for these deserving, historic mustangs, whose family has been massacred ❤️
We were able to raise all of the funds for our first "Alpine Pasture" which was successfully constructed and is housing all of the Alpines for the winter months! in the picture above you see the initial #divine9alpines grazing happily! For the Alpine Wild Horses 50 acre pasture's fencing and shelters, we need to raise $50,000.
During this Giving Week can you help us make this 50 acre paradise a reality for our 22 Alpine Wild Horses?!
**We have a BIG match donation offer at $20,000 that we are working so hard to hit!!!!!