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Corolla's
Wild Mustangs
Efforts
are underway to fund a university study to determine exactly what affects these wild
horses may have on the flora and fauna of the area they inhabit.
It is hoped
the planned study will answer many questions and put an end to the objections
of some of those involved.
Even
as the long-term fate of Corolla's wild Spanish mustangs hangs
in limbo while a solution to the imposed restriction of an unsustainable
herd size is researched, their immediate safety is once more
in
serious
question. The very problem which sequestered them away from
highway traffic
more than ten years ago has reemerged, even in the relative
safety of their remote sanctuary.
In March, 2009,
and again just two months later in May, two stallions were hit by vehicles on the
beach. With injuries too severe to be treated, both stallions had to be euthanized.
Such tragic news only added to the sad fact that seven horses had been shot by unknown
persons in the recent past. These criminal acts were further blows to
the
hopes
of
sustaining sufficient genetic diversity among the already endangered herd.
As
if all these pressures weren't enough, developers have long been pressing to get
highway NC12 extended north of Corolla into this last remote spot. Additionally,
a request to rezone some of the land in the horse sanctuary for a 50-room inn and
shopping complex has been put forth once again after already being turned down
four
years prior.
After
nearly half a millennium of surviving on these rugged and remote shores of the
New World, there now seems to be a real chance the story of these inspiring survivors
from
the
history
and
legends
of
North
Carolina's
Outer Banks could come to a tragic close.
Where
will this centuries old story of these wild Spanish mustangs
of Corolla lead? What unexpected and undeserved misfortunes
will be heaped upon them next? What will save them, if indeed
any solution can be begged, bought, finagled or engineered
to save their freedom?
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