Assertion: burro's horse | /r/HasProperty | reintroduced native species
Facets:
value: depending
type: OTHER
value: to north america
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Viable solutions do exist to allow wild horses — a reintroduced native species – to remain free on their rightful home ranges and for balance to be achieved on our shared public lands to benefit wild horses and all wildlife and livestock grazing.
text: : Wild Horses ARE NATIVE to North America
text: Critics of the idea that the North American wild horse is a native animal, using only selected paleontological data, assert that the species, E. caballus (or the caballoid horse), which was introduced in 1519, was a different species from that which disappeared between 13,000–11,000 years before.
text: If the idea that wild horses were, indeed, native wildlife, a great many current management approaches might be compromised.
text: Wild horses and burros are non-native animals, protected by the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act (WHB Act).
text: The question at hand is, therefore, whether or not modern horses, Equus caballus, should be considered native wildlife.
text: Wild horses are a native reintroduced species.
text: Thus, the rationale for examining this proposition, that the horse is a native or non-native species, is significant.
text: Depending on whom you ask, wild horses are a reintroduced native species indigenous to North America, an invasive pest disrupting ecological functions, or feral livestock that are culturally significant and whose numbers need to be closely managed.
text: Another viewpoint is that mustangs reinhabited an ecological niche vacated when horses went extinct in North America 10,000 years ago, with a variant characterization that horses are a reintroduced native species that should be legally classified as "wild" rather than "feral" and managed as wildlife.
text: A 2013 report by the National Research Council of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine also challenged the idea of horses being a reintroduced native species stating that "the complex of animals and vegetation has changed since horses were extirpated from North America".
text: However, neither paleontological opinion nor modern molecular genetics support the contention that the modern horse in North America is non-native.