Five horses grazing in a field of tall grass with trees in the background.

Miranda Foundation Welfare

We work for the comprehensive well-being of horses, respecting their nature and promoting a dignified life in freedom.

Side close-up of the head and neck of a bay horse with a black mane, with the blurred background of a green, leafy mountain forest.
Two horses, one light bay looking at the other chestnut with a blond mane and tail seen from behind, surrounded by intense green spring foliage.

DECALE OF HORSE WELFARE AND PRESENTATION OF THE HORSE WELFARE COMMISSION

After much accumulated experience, many hours of observation and reflection, sharing cases, circumstances and decisions, theMiranda Team And others Related professionals, we have decided to highlight our work, and do it in an even more explicit, contrasted and participatory way among the people who are responsible for the well-being of the Foundation's 80 equines.

Horses and donkeys with a variety of stories and themes to attend to, in a variety of territories.

We are permanently in contact to attend to and resolve everything that affects the welfare of these beings. In addition to the usual face-to-face work in the territories, and the conversations and permanent communication between us, we want to announce that since this April 2025, we have started the Horse Welfare Commission, to complete and improve the Welfare protocols that we created four years ago.

A Protocol is a living document that we nourish with learnings resulting from new situations.

Every month we meet with all the people responsible for the horses in each territory, those who make up the COBEC (Horse Welfare Commission), to jointly assess cases and other factors that may determine the health of the equines in our care.

In an extraordinary way, we also meet to assess emergencies and issues that may emerge as priorities.

Back in the day we made a Good Practices Manual for the Department of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food (with contributions from Anita Jauch and Rosa Galindo).

We are currently finishing drafting the Takhi or Przewalski Horse Welfare Protocol (Giska Project) with contributions from Laura Riera (FAADA) and Rosa Galindo. This protocol is in a participatory process with Boumort Reserve staff, and research professionals from the Centauro Project, UDL, UAB.

As a pioneering entity with 17 years of experience in the recovery and reintroduction of horses into the wild, we have a lot to contribute and we want to share it with you!

Our VALUES:

We do NOT “help”. YES We accompany i we support when necessary, to empower the other and awaken their strength, capabilities and resilience.

LOOK who needs support with LOVE i TRUST​ to empower him.

OBSERVE I LISTEN for RESPECT, before doing or intervening.

TRAIN THE EYE with a “beginner's mind” (OBSERVER) so that prejudices do not interfere with diagnoses and the perception and detection of problems and processes.

INTERVENT AND ASSIST WITH VETERINARY CARE I CURE whenever necessary.

TO MONITOR AND SUPPORT the needs of horses and foals at all times, and TO ASSESS the plasticity of these needs, in moments of VITAL CHANGES (age and stages of life).

ESTABLISH group and general protocols, always taking into account the individual and their SINGULARITY I DIVERSITY.

RESPECT FAMILY AND FRIENDLY TIES.

SELF-REGULATING continuously, to SEEK STATES OF NEUTRALITY from consciousness, WITHOUT EMOTIONAL PROJECTION that bring us CLARITY OF VISION to make decisions, with INVOLVEMENT AND FROM THE HEART, as well as with equanimity: "May our own emotions allow us to see the other and their needs and real will."

Two horses grazing freely on a lush green slope, with a dark brown horse in the foreground and a white one in the background, surrounded by forested mountains.
Four horses with blond manes and light brown fur drinking fresh water together from a dark green trough.