For decades they were extinct in the wild, but the Przewalski horse is back on the Steppes of Mongolia. And that’s largely thanks to three Dutch people who made it their life mission to save this small pale-gold pony.
Twenty years ago, couple Jan and Inge Bouwman, together with their lifelong friend Annette Groeneveld, realised the dangers faced by the Przewalski horse.
The horses were discovered on the Mongolian Steppes a century ago by a European expedition headed by Nikolai Przhevalsky (the name of the horse is the Polish variant of the name). After they realised that they were the last living ancestor of our domestic horses, 55 foals were shipped back to Europe.
It was a move that saved the species. Within 60 years, they had been eradicated from the Steppes. But years of inbreeding had taken a terrible toll. There were only a few sorry specimens left in zoos around the world and most of the foals born to them died within a couple of years.
Fund raising
The Boumans and Groeneveld mounted a formidable fund raising campaign to buy the horses from zoos and cross bred the pairs to refresh the stock. But the ultimate goal was clear – the Przewalski should return to its natural home.
They were lucky. In the 1990s Mongolia was emerging from seven decades of Soviet rule. And the Przewalski horse was a powerful symbol of Mongolian identity. They had always been known to Mongolians as takh – holy. The Mongolian government responded to the call of the Boumans and Groeneveld by offering the Hustai National Park as a refuge to the takhs coming home.
To a nation of horse lovers, the return of the takh was an emotional moment. Nowadays, 200 of these pale ponies graze peacefully on the grass sea that fed their ancestors for centuries.
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Hello to ISPMB, President Karen Sussman, wild horse advocates and all international media outlets,
Thank you for your great support of ISPMB.
Please except my retraction statement : To Whom It May Concern: On, or in the month possible June by it was in July of 2010 ( I ), Barbara Ries sent out a press release on behalf of Karen Sussman in hopes of helping her raise funds for ISPMB , International Society for the Protection of Mustangs and Burros.
I apologize that this was sent without her knowledge or permission and the statements made in the press release were taken completely out of context.
Specifically, Princeton University is not at this point involved with ISPMB. However, ISPMB is working with Mary Ann Simonds of the Whole Horse Institute
and Dr. Cassandra Nunez from Princeton University in designing a wild horse ecology study to define functional and dysfunctional wild horse behaviors relative
to various equine cultures. This program needs funding in order to be implemented.
Please except my apology as my eagerness to help overshadowed my journalistic professionalism. I apologize for any time or inconvenient in my behalf to ISPMB and it's President.
Sincerely ,
Barbara Ries
To ISPMB , President Karen Sussman
PO Box 55
Lantry, SD 57636-0055
Tel: 605-964-6866
Cell: 605-430-2088
Saving America's Wild Horses and Burros since 1960
http://www.ispmb.org
Hello to ISPMB, President Karen Sussman, wild horse advocates and all international media outlets,
Thank you for your great support of ISPMB.
Please except my retraction statement : To Whom It May Concern: On, or in the month possible June by it was in July of 2010 ( I ), Barbara Ries sent out a press release on behalf of Karen Sussman in hopes of helping her raise funds for ISPMB , International Society for the Protection of Mustangs and Burros.
I apologize that this was sent without her knowledge or permission and the statements made in the press release were taken completely out of context.
Specifically, Princeton University is not at this point involved with ISPMB. However, ISPMB is working with Mary Ann Simonds of the Whole Horse Institute
and Dr. Cassandra Nunez from Princeton University in designing a wild horse ecology study to define functional and dysfunctional wild horse behaviors relative
to various equine cultures. This program needs funding in order to be implemented.
Please except my apology as my eagerness to help overshadowed my journalistic professionalism. I apologize for any time or inconvenient in my behalf to ISPMB and it's President.
Sincerely ,
Barbara Ries
To ISPMB , President Karen Sussman
PO Box 55
Lantry, SD 57636-0055
Tel: 605-964-6866
Cell: 605-430-2088
Saving America's Wild Horses and Burros since 1960
http://www.ispmb.org
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT:
July 12, 2010 Barbara Ries – 520-509-6268
Radio and TV Shows Karen Sussman- 605-964-6866
MEET THE WOMAN WHO WALKS WITH WILD HORSES
International Society for the Protection of Mustangs and Burros ( ISPMB ) Lantry, SD- Creating a new paradigm for the protection of wild horses and burros through the development of the International Wild Horse and Burro Conservation Center, the International Society for the Protection of Mustangs and Burros, is the only privately funded organization managing entire herds of wild horses.
The Conservation Center began eleven years ago with the acquisition of the last of the White Sands Missile Range horses from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The capture and release onto private lands of the White Sands wild horses was documented by Life Magazine in 1999. The following year, ISPMB obtained its second wild herd known as the Gila Herd. These rare Spanish horses are the descendants of stock from Father Kino’s mission (1600’s) in southern Arizona. These horses have appeared twice in National Geographic Magazine (2004 and 2009) and most recently this year’s Smithsonian Magazine.
Both the aforementioned herds exist only on ISPMB’s ranch. ISPMB received two more herds under the premise that these herds existence were threatened with possible elimination from their home territories in the state of Nevada. They are the Catnip Herd and the Virginia Range Wild Horses.
Living amongst the wild herds, Karen Sussman, president of the ISPMB, has documented wild horse behaviors for years and can provide interesting topics of discussion and public engagement such as: The Need to Protect America’s Wild Horses and Burros Who Are Fast Disappearing from the American Landscape; The Connection of Horse and Human Culture; Wild Horse Annie’s ( ISPMB’s first president ) Outstanding Achievement’s in Wild Horse and Burro Preservation; Anything You Wanted to Know About Wild Horse Behaviors and Their Highly Evolved Communities; How You Can Help to Protect America’s Wild Horses and Burros for Future Generation to Enjoy; Ecotourism - Enjoying the Beauty of Wild Horses.
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Karen A. Sussman
President, ISPMB
PO Box 55
Lantry, SD 57636-0055
Tel: 605-964-6866
Cell: 605-430 -2088
Saving America's Wild Horses and Burros since 1960
http://www.ispmb.org
Become a member of ISPMB today!
http://www.ispmb.org/how-to-help-2/membership/
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Meet the Lady who walks with the Wild Horses
Eco-Tourism and Conservation
Topics: I’ll be talking about wild horse behavior and all the important aspects of saving our wild horses and burros, Connecting to Our Culture to Nature, Wild Horses and the Human and Horse Bond, Conservation Of Wild Horses, Equine Gentling, Photography Travel sites for those who love Horse Pictures, Humans Connection to Nature, Family Travel of a lifetime, Wild Horse Annie, Wild horses on public lands, The impact of behavioral studies on the horses, and many other related topics. ISPMB has been..."Saving America's Wild Horses and Burros since 1960. Karen Sussman’s private land has seen Stephen Spielberg’s and Kevin Costner from “Dancing with Wolves”, and numerous other stars, interested parties and Wowed animal loving folks.
Karen Sussman is charming as well as educated about 400 hundred horses. She is the only women in the world with (4) wild horse herds. Karen has navigated herself to talk in front of Congress and has met with the most resistant to mediate the lives of wild burro's after an the blood bath near Oatman, AZ. The battle of minds was settled by Karen’s dedication and guidance about other methods besides slaughter.
Karen raised her children in Scottsdale, AZ. She then felt a deep longing which invited by a calling to help USA’s horse herds. Nothing is impossible for Karen she has help organized the freedom for the Apache Sitgrave horses with Dr. Pat Haigh and the only free herd wild horses. She assisted to moving buffalos from Catalina Island to South Dakota keep them as an American symbol, yet her dreams got bigger.
Karen feels comfortable on her rural South Dakota farm and conservation with hundreds of acres on grazing prairie. The Lakota believe they would have a person come to them to re-unit the horses with their culture. They believe the horse woman is Ms. Karen. Return of Sungnuni glugluka (mustang). The Lakota people once relied on and lived with the wild horse. The horse was used in ceremonies, games, hunting, and war and in everyday life. The horse was a symbol of freedom, strength, pride and courage. The Indian people believe that they had the horse long before the Spanish arrived. The horse was bred for specific purposes. Similar to the Arabian it was bred for endurance and speed. It was necessary to travel many miles sometimes non-stop for days. The speed was required for hunting, war and games. A fast pony was a highly cherished animal with the Indian people. Today we have the privilege of having the wild horse in our midst again. As the Indian people search for their roots and regain their ceremonies, language and culture it becomes evident that the return of the wild horse is part of becoming whole again. Returning us to nature, Karen Sussman makes the magic of the natural world real again.
Princeton University is coming this summer to research the behavior of wild horses in natural herds and its founding president “Wild Horse Annie” is going to be Hollywood movie, Wild Horse Annie
Travel on an Eco- Spiritual Vacation:
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Contact: Location: International Society of Mustangs and Burros, Karen Sussman,
Address: ISPMB, PO Box 55, Lantry, SD 57636-0055
Phone: 605-964-6866, Mobile: 605-365-6991 (11-5 Mountain time) Messages will be returned in farm time
E-Mail: ispmb@lakotanetwork.com
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Biography of Karen Sussman
http://www.wildhorsesummit.com/bios/Sussman.php
ISPMB Fund Raising Campaign
ISPMB’s situation May 2010, Karen Sussman and I need to get over the hump of any winter and spring season. This triple whammy season and severe blizzards (rain and snow levels drifting 20 feet) was devastating snapping electric poles like twigs and canceling our hay supplier. Rates went sky high and there was six week weather caused a hay and supply blackout.
ISPMB is grateful the earth got a BIG drink of water since there have been several drought level summers. An unexpected flood in the spring forced the government officials on March of 2010, ISPMB County and South Dakota was declared a disaster by President Obama and Governor Rounds and FEMA. ISPMB applied for FEMA funding, but this demolished the winter fund and President Funds.
ISPMB is looking for hay donations or checks of any amount to make up for disaster of $75,000.00 is needed to make up for these lose of reserve of winter funds.
Winters are harsh in any winter South Dakota needs winter fund yearly. If debt is reduced this amount needs to overflow as any business needs emergency fund reserves- especially for animals and to not mortgage all structures .
Karen Sussman asking you to assist this great project and conservation effort restore ISPMB’s balance and funding base. There is still much to do equine aftercare programs, green ~ heritage center and expanding resources for a marketing director and grant writer for expanded eco-tourism project into the future for generations of small and BIG kids.
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Karen Sussman is president of the International Society for the Protection of Mustangs and Burros, the oldest wild horse and burro organization in the United States. She follows in the footsteps of her predecessors, Helen Reilly and Wild Horse Annie (Velma Johnston).
Ms. Sussman has devoted her life to saving America’s wild horses and burros. Currently, she is developing the first wild horse conservation program in the United States creating a model management program for entire wild herds. The herds must qualify as threatened or endangered. The conservation program is home to four herds of wild horses two of which exist nowhere else in the U.S. except at the Conservation Center. The herds are monitored daily.
Ms. Sussman has received bipartisan support for her efforts, both in Congress and the Department of the Interior. She has served on the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board in 1990-92. Ms. Sussman has received numerous awards for her work with wild horses and burros. In 1996 she and her Black Mountain Eco-team received the Health of the Land Award from the Secretary of the Interior for their five-year commitment diffusing an extremely volatile situation after 50 wild burros were shot to death in Kingman. Called in initially by the governor of New Mexico, Ms. Sussman worked for ten years with the White Sands Missile Range helping to prevent the slaughter of wild horses on White Sands. She organized two national conferences and created two national alliances pertaining to the Del Rio Investigation and the Burns Amendment. She signed the first MOU with the BLM in 1989 to do Volunteer Compliance on adopted wild horses in the U.S. Ms. Sussman worked actively within the prison wild horse training programs and assisted the BLM in coordinating a consistent training program for wild horses within the different prisons. She created the first rescue program in the U.S. where no BLM adopted horse or burro was ever sold to slaughter within the entire state of Arizona during the five years of the rescue’s operation.
In 2006, she was inducted into the Mustang Hall of Fame at the Wild Horse and Burro Expo in Nevada. In 2007, she organized the largest rescue of wild horses since the closing of the slaughter plants in the U.S. Over 225 wild horses were adopted and 100 remain at the Conservation Center awaiting placement in Wisconsin.
Ms. Sussman has appeared on many TV programs and has been quoted in many national and international press articles. She is a graduate of Temple University in Philadelphia, PA where she received her diploma in Nursing in 1967 and currently works four days a month at the Indian Health Service Emergency Room in Eagle Butte, SD. She also was an accredited pre-collegiate piano instructor in classical music for 12 years before moving to SD. She served on the Board of the League of Women Voters and is an original member of the National Museum of Women’s History in Washington, D.C.
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Donations Need: This is a High Emergency Level
• Donation in Hay represented in $2500.00 per month for hay cost to feed four herds
• Larger donates, Assist in Disaster Fund, Love donations. Give as your Heart wishes.
• Silent Auctions of Signed Books, Pictures and Photographs of the Herds will be auctioned
• Matching Funds
• Disaster Fund is currently $75,000.00 due to Declared Disaster, March -2010 by President Obama.
• Donated Autographic pictures of stars, donated items for silent auction
• Volunteer form for additional donations of time or resources ( below) ~
• Donate your time I donate an average of 20 hours a week to ISPMB, match my hours , “Pay It Forward”
ISPMB is a 501c3 non for profit
Thank you ahead of time
The Wild Horses, ISPMB, Karen Sussman
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Volunteer form for additional donations of time or resources ~
http://www.ispmb.org/get-involved/
Barbara Ellen Ries, Volunteer marketing for ISPMB, Wild Horses
Meet the Lady who walks with the Wild Horses
Eco-Tourism and Conservation
Topics: I’ll be talking about wild horse behavior and all the important aspects of saving our wild horses and burros, Connecting to Our Culture to Nature, Wild Horses and the Human and Horse Bond, Conservation Of Wild Horses, Equine Gentling, Photography Travel sites for those who love Horse Pictures, Humans Connection to Nature, Family Travel of a lifetime, Wild Horse Annie, Wild horses on public lands, The impact of behavioral studies on the horses, and many other related topics. ISPMB has been..."Saving America's Wild Horses and Burros since 1960. Karen Sussman’s private land has seen Stephen Spielberg’s and Kevin Costner from “Dancing with Wolves”, and numerous other stars, interested parties and Wowed animal loving folks.
Karen Sussman is charming as well as educated about 400 hundred horses. She is the only women in the world with (4) wild horse herds. Karen has navigated herself to talk in front of Congress and has met with the most resistant to mediate the lives of wild burro's after an the blood bath near Oatman, AZ. The battle of minds was settled by Karen’s dedication and guidance about other methods besides slaughter.
Karen raised her children in Scottsdale, AZ. She then felt a deep longing which invited by a calling to help USA’s horse herds. Nothing is impossible for Karen she has help organized the freedom for the Apache Sitgrave horses with Dr. Pat Haigh and the only free herd wild horses. She assisted to moving buffalos from Catalina Island to South Dakota keep them as an American symbol, yet her dreams got bigger.
Karen feels comfortable on her rural South Dakota farm and conservation with hundreds of acres on grazing prairie. The Lakota believe they would have a person come to them to re-unit the horses with their culture. They believe the horse woman is Ms. Karen. Return of Sungnuni glugluka (mustang). The Lakota people once relied on and lived with the wild horse. The horse was used in ceremonies, games, hunting, and war and in everyday life. The horse was a symbol of freedom, strength, pride and courage. The Indian people believe that they had the horse long before the Spanish arrived. The horse was bred for specific purposes. Similar to the Arabian it was bred for endurance and speed. It was necessary to travel many miles sometimes non-stop for days. The speed was required for hunting, war and games. A fast pony was a highly cherished animal with the Indian people. Today we have the privilege of having the wild horse in our midst again. As the Indian people search for their roots and regain their ceremonies, language and culture it becomes evident that the return of the wild horse is part of becoming whole again. Returning us to nature, Karen Sussman makes the magic of the natural world real again.
Princeton University is coming this summer to research the behavior of wild horses in natural herds and its founding president “Wild Horse Annie” is going to be Hollywood movie, Wild Horse Annie
Travel on an Eco- Spiritual Vacation:
http://epoch-archive.com/a1/en/us/nyc/2008/11-Nov/26/B5_Travel.pdf
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/31467/
Suggested guest speaker for your web radio
http://www.ispmb.org/what-we-do/our-horses/
http://www.ispmb.org/about/press/
http://www.photoshelter.com/image/I0000A19I_GMmkyU
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/31467/
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You tube ~A Must Watch~ A delightful story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JDcQE0a0uw ~ You tube ~A must watch ~ a delightful story
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Contact: Location: International Society of Mustangs and Burros, Karen Sussman,
Address: ISPMB, PO Box 55, Lantry, SD 57636-0055
Phone: 605-964-6866, Mobile: 605-365-6991 (11-5 Mountain time) Messages will be returned in farm time
E-Mail: ispmb@lakotanetwork.com
**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
Biography of Karen Sussman
http://www.wildhorsesummit.com/bios/Sussman.php
Pictures: ISBMP and Karen Sussman
http://www.wildhorsefoundation.org/images/karen%20sussman.JPG
http://www.wildhorsefoundation.org/images/karen%20sussman.JPG
http://www.photoshelter.com/c/olsonfarlow/search?I_DSC=karen+sussman&I_D...
ISPMB Fund Raising Campaign
ISPMB’s situation May 2010, Karen Sussman and I need to get over the hump of any winter and spring season. This triple whammy season and severe blizzards (rain and snow levels drifting 20 feet) was devastating snapping electric poles like twigs and canceling our hay supplier. Rates went sky high and there was six week weather caused a hay and supply blackout.
ISPMB is grateful the earth got a BIG drink of water since there have been several drought level summers. An unexpected flood in the spring forced the government officials on March of 2010, ISPMB County and South Dakota was declared a disaster by President Obama and Governor Rounds and FEMA. ISPMB applied for FEMA funding, but this demolished the winter fund and President Funds.
ISPMB is looking for hay donations or checks of any amount to make up for disaster of $75,000.00 is needed to make up for these lose of reserve of winter funds.
Winters are harsh in any winter South Dakota needs winter fund yearly. If debt is reduced this amount needs to overflow as any business needs emergency fund reserves- especially for animals and to not mortgage all structures .
Karen Sussman asking you to assist this great project and conservation effort restore ISPMB’s balance and funding base. There is still much to do equine aftercare programs, green ~ heritage center and expanding resources for a marketing director and grant writer for expanded eco-tourism project into the future for generations of small and BIG kids.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Karen Sussman is president of the International Society for the Protection of Mustangs and Burros, the oldest wild horse and burro organization in the United States. She follows in the footsteps of her predecessors, Helen Reilly and Wild Horse Annie (Velma Johnston).
Ms. Sussman has devoted her life to saving America’s wild horses and burros. Currently, she is developing the first wild horse conservation program in the United States creating a model management program for entire wild herds. The herds must qualify as threatened or endangered. The conservation program is home to four herds of wild horses two of which exist nowhere else in the U.S. except at the Conservation Center. The herds are monitored daily.
Ms. Sussman has received bipartisan support for her efforts, both in Congress and the Department of the Interior. She has served on the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board in 1990-92. Ms. Sussman has received numerous awards for her work with wild horses and burros. In 1996 she and her Black Mountain Eco-team received the Health of the Land Award from the Secretary of the Interior for their five-year commitment diffusing an extremely volatile situation after 50 wild burros were shot to death in Kingman. Called in initially by the governor of New Mexico, Ms. Sussman worked for ten years with the White Sands Missile Range helping to prevent the slaughter of wild horses on White Sands. She organized two national conferences and created two national alliances pertaining to the Del Rio Investigation and the Burns Amendment. She signed the first MOU with the BLM in 1989 to do Volunteer Compliance on adopted wild horses in the U.S. Ms. Sussman worked actively within the prison wild horse training programs and assisted the BLM in coordinating a consistent training program for wild horses within the different prisons. She created the first rescue program in the U.S. where no BLM adopted horse or burro was ever sold to slaughter within the entire state of Arizona during the five years of the rescue’s operation.
In 2006, she was inducted into the Mustang Hall of Fame at the Wild Horse and Burro Expo in Nevada. In 2007, she organized the largest rescue of wild horses since the closing of the slaughter plants in the U.S. Over 225 wild horses were adopted and 100 remain at the Conservation Center awaiting placement in Wisconsin.
Ms. Sussman has appeared on many TV programs and has been quoted in many national and international press articles. She is a graduate of Temple University in Philadelphia, PA where she received her diploma in Nursing in 1967 and currently works four days a month at the Indian Health Service Emergency Room in Eagle Butte, SD. She also was an accredited pre-collegiate piano instructor in classical music for 12 years before moving to SD. She served on the Board of the League of Women Voters and is an original member of the National Museum of Women’s History in Washington, D.C.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Donations Need: This is a High Emergency Level
• Donation in Hay represented in $2500.00 per month for hay cost to feed four herds
• Larger donates, Assist in Disaster Fund, Love donations. Give as your Heart wishes.
• Silent Auctions of Signed Books, Pictures and Photographs of the Herds will be auctioned
• Matching Funds
• Disaster Fund is currently $75,000.00 due to Declared Disaster, March -2010 by President Obama.
• Donated Autographic pictures of stars, donated items for silent auction
• Volunteer form for additional donations of time or resources ( below) ~
• Donate your time I donate an average of 20 hours a week to ISPMB, match my hours , “Pay It Forward”
ISPMB is a 501c3 non for profit
Thank you ahead of time
The Wild Horses, ISPMB, Karen Sussman
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Volunteer form for additional donations of time or resources ~
http://www.ispmb.org/get-involved/
Barbara Ellen Ries, Volunteer marketing for ISPMB, Wild Horses
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