The Abaco Wild Horse Fund, Inc.

The World's Most Endangered Horse

The only seven remaining Abaco Barbs in the world, on the island of Abaco in the Bahamas, are fighting for their lives as inappropriate human intervention and a drastic change in habitat have taken a severe toll. The struggling remnants of a once mighty herd of 200 are facing extinction for the second time in their recently turbulent history.
In August 2002, the horses were as designated a new strain of the critically endangered Spanish Barb breed by the Horse of the America’s Registry
This site contains a history of the horses, goals for the future, a newsletter and information on how you can help. For monthly reports on the horses, click HOOFBEATS.

	New Year Fire Scorches Preserve
Buy fun products and help the horses at our growing shop at Cafe Press For a few examples of what we offer, click here	What started out as a pleasant drive down the main Preserve road turned into a nightmare as I rounded a corner and saw nothing but scorched bush on both sides of the road. A fire set by illegal squatters on the adjacent farm sometime late Wednesday, Jan.6, in over 25 mph of west wind, burned at least 1/4 of the farm and 1/4 of the Preserve, possibly more. An area about half a mile long, holding at least a mile of fence, was scorched. An area the men had been carefully preparing for a mini pasture was burned. The mares have not had access to pasture since Mimosa died in October due to the presence of deadly poisonous Lantana Sage which has invaded the farm after the Department of Agriculture bulldozed all the citrus trees. Read More Please, consider more letters to Minister Deveaux about the impossibility of the situation; the squatters must be removed and hunters controlled. Also please consider, now more than ever, that a low subscription rate of $120 per years, $10 per month, less than you probably spend on your morning coffee, will be of enormous help if enough people sign on. Thank you. Can you get us on The Oprah Show? The Ellen Show? Please help us keep going. You can use this link http://www.oprah.com/contactus to ask Oprah to consider doing a story or show about our horses. You can use this link http://ellen.warnerbros.com/show/respond/?PlugID=10 to go to Ellen’s Show Page. Tell Oprah and Ellen how much you want them to help save the Abaco Wild Horses, the most rare breed of horse in the world, facing extinction for the second time in the last 50 years. The more people who write to Oprah and Ellen about us the better our chances of getting their attention.	More Ways To Help
Where is Abaco? (Map)		Visitors' Comments
Photos! by Arnd Bronkhorst
History of the Horses		Visit The Barbs
Short History		Fact Sheet
HOOFBEATS Newsletter
Video Clips Check top of index for new videos
Fund Goals Arkwild and GoWHOA
About This Site		Send Email

Bulletins: Follow us on Twitter, Become a Fan on Facebook, Watch us on You Tube Find great gifts at Cafe Press: Twitter: click here Facebook: click here. You Tube: click here Our Online Store at Cafe Press Is Open! We've started with tote bags featuring our unique grpahics. More items to come soon. A great way to help the horses, spread the word about their plight and find fun gifts for you and your friends at our growing shop at Cafe Press A Challenge for Kids See who can Round Up the most Bucks for the Wild Horses of Abaco: Kids in school can participate in the Give a Buck program to raise funds for the horses by joining the the Abaco Barb Youth program. Girls Scouts, Boy Scouts, 4-H clubs, etc. all over the U.S., as well as similar youth groups abroad, are invited to get involved. We will list all the groups as they come into the project, with photos of the groups and any project they've done, for a school year competition with monthly updates as funds are received at Arkwild. Groups can help by connecting with other groups: get the word out and get more schools and more kids involved. Let's use the world wide web to build a safety net for the Abaco horses and protec this rare breed. For more information contact Susan Dudasik at abacobarb@custertel.net or visit http://www.geocities.com/smh4hc/ to see what great things kids have done. At any time, Consider an environmentally friendly, horse loving gift for a critter loving friend: make a donation to the Abaco Barbs in your friend's name. Your donations are tax deductible This site updated Januaryb 11, 2010 Disclaimer: We are sorry to note that there are now a number of other web sites claiming to be about the Abaco Barbary Horse. We are the only site that is 'on site' in Abaco; we started the project in 1992.and have been working for the horses ever since. If you need up to date information, this is the place for it. Other sites only confuse issues and draw attention away from our critical needs. Thank you for your support. For copyright information Click Here. Arkwild Inc. has 501(c)(3) tax exempt status Your donations are tax deductible Donations and snail mail in the U.S. Arkwild, Inc 2829 Bird Ave. Ste.5, PMB # 170 Miami, FL 33133 Donations and snail mail in the Bahamas Wild Horses Of Abaco PO Box AB 20979 Marsh Harbour, Abaco Bahamas