About Us
Since 2010, The Wild Horse Project has been dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and education surrounding wild horses. The Wild Horse Projects kaupapa is to manage the horses in the Far North of Aotearoa New Zealand in a sustainable way.
There are estimated to be around 2,000 horses the length of Te Oneroa-a-Tōhe/Ninety Mile Beach, the adjacent forestry, public and private properties.
With regular, approved, mustering by The Wild Horse Project, the taming and rehoming of the younger horses ensures the natural food and water supply can support the herd for generations to come.
Founder Chloe Philips-Harris is an expert trainer and teacher of bringing horses from the wild into domesticity.
The Wild Horse Project is a registered Charity – CC61637.
Thank you for your support 🐴
Our Mission
Our mission is simple and broken into two simple goals.
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Care: first and foremost our goal is to care for the horses and help them adjust and become prepared for a new way of life.
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Education & Adoption: we want more people to feel encouraged to work with, adopt and rethink their attitudes towards these amazing animals. We share real stories, training methods and advice about the horses we work with and aim to get as many people as possible interested in supporting these amazing animals.
What Sets Us Apart
We believe wild and feral horses deserve a chance. We help them adapt to live happy, well-adjusted and fulfilled lives as they start a new chapter as domestic horses. We work with wild horses of all ages, nothing is exempt. Through our understanding of horse behaviour there hasn't been any horses we couldn't tame, or hasn't adjusted to domestic life.
From mature stallions all the way down to newborn foals, we work with every horse that comes into our care. We open up our training methods to public, with wild horse workshops, educational clinics, working student positions and private lessons. So that more people can learn how to work with these amazing animals and improve their horsemanship along the way.
Hundreds of
wild horses saved
by The Wild Horse Project since 2010
100+
mustered
every year, each needing food, medical attention, and taming.
$20,000+
each year
is needed to cover medical bills for our rescues
$15
a day
the cost of feeding a newly rescued wild horse
Booth's Logistics
transported both feed and yards for us free of charge.
Stronghold Ltd
provided yards to help house the wild horses
Purvis Feeds
provided feed for the wild horses
The Wildhorse Masterclass
donates 50% profits to the Wild Horse Project
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Lassoo
Media & PR
provided website design and social media support
Thank you to our sponsors
Contact Us
For general enquiries about our horses and events, please use the main contact us form below, or email info@thewildhorseproject.com
You can also get in touch via our social channels - our Facebook page message inbox is regularly monitored.
We also have specific forms for Horse Adoption and Wild Horse Workshop event bookings, please navigate to the forms on those specific pages.