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"Platero Project" Aims to Keep Wild Burros Wild
Photo | Mike Lorden
Thanks to a generous anonymous donor who has a special place in her heart for burros, AWHPC is now managing The Platero Project, a program dedicated to promoting awareness about America's wild burros and keeping them wild and free on the range. The project is named for the small donkey who is the main character of the poetic short story and Spanish literary classic "Platery y Yo" (Platero and Me) by Spanish Nobel Laureate Juan Ramon Jimenez.
Wild burros have the same rich history and are as culturally significant as wild horses, but they receive far less attention. The Platero Project aims to change that by elevating the status of burros and increasing appreciation for these icons of the American Southwest. At the same time, the project will focus on initiatives to keep wild burros wild and free on the range. America's burros are in crisis due to their dwindling numbers, artificially low allowable population levels and the geographic fragmentation of the few remaining burro populations. Immediate action is needed to to ensure that America's wild burro populations will remain genetically viable and sustainable going forward into the future
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