Located about 300 kilometres off the southeast coast of Nova Scotia, Sable Island is a 42-kilometre sandbar that has supported a population of feral horses since the 18th century.

The fabled horses of Sable Island have a long and somewhat unknown and controversial story, says Lisa Young. Here's all you need to know about them — from how they ended up there, to how they ...

Three young male horses greet each other on Sable Island. (Sarah Medill/University of Saskatchewan)We do most of our sampling from 20 metres or farther using zoom lenses.

The future of Sable Island’s wild horses and its biodiversity hangs in the balance. The post Canada’s Wild Horses Devastating ...

Digital access Digital + home delivery. Documentary turns the camera on the horses of Sable Island ...

A biologist who specializes in the study of unique ecosystems contained on remote islands says horses have no business on Sable Island. Ian Jones, a biologist at the Memorial University of ...

Every winter, about 500,000 gray seals gather on a remote sandbar called Sable Island. Located 200 miles off the coast of Nova Scotia, the seals gather here to rest, molt, give birth to their pups ...

A team of researchers that has travelled to Sable Island for the past two years to find out what causes the horses to die is finding evidence of starvation in some of the feral animals as well as ...