Non-profit civil organization
Alerta Equina is a non-profit civil organization working to prevent horse theft in Argentina and to stand by the people who go through one. You register your animals before anything happens. If they are stolen, we write the draft police report and the filing for the prosecutor's office for you, and we give you the list of what to do in the first 24 hours.
It's free and always will be.
01 · Before
You register your horses
02 · When it happens
You tell us and file the report
03 · The days after
You know what to do and in what order
An illustrative map over real geography: the areas correspond to cases reported in the press and the corridors are drawn over real roads. The animated routes are simulated: they are not ongoing cases or exact locations.
How we help
You enter the information once. The day you need it, it's already there.
Register my horsesBefore
You record the markings, the photos and the paperwork for each animal before anything happens. We only ask for what's needed to identify the horse if the day ever comes.
When it happens
Using what you already entered, we prepare the draft police report and the filing for the prosecutor's office. You don't have to gather again what you had already put in.
The days after
You get a list of what to do and in what order. Everything you add to the case stays in one place, with its date and time, ready to present wherever it's needed.
As soon as you tell us, these are ready for you to review and file:
We don't replace the police or the courts, and this is not legal advice. We help you arrive with everything ready.
Argentina has no national registry of horse theft: the data that exists is partial and scattered. And someone who goes through a theft usually starts from zero, not knowing where to go, what paperwork to bring or what to ask.
Alerta Equina gathers it in advance, in one place: your horses' details and the information on where to go and what to bring. It's a tool made available to Argentina's equine community in the face of horse theft.
Nobody knows how many horses are stolen each year in Argentina, in which districts, or how many turn up. Without that number, horse theft doesn't make it onto any agenda: there's nothing to show a journalist and nothing to put on the table in a meeting with an official.
That registry gets built one way only: case by case, told by the person who lived it.
Enter what you know even if it happened years ago, even if you never filed a report, even if the horse turned up. You don't need to have everything: how many there were, when it happened and where is enough.
Every case entered is one more data point. When we have enough, we'll publish what the data says — and only that — and take it to the press, to politics and to the authorities it concerns. We will never publish made-up numbers.
How to identify your animals, how to look after the property, what technology actually helps, how to organize with your neighbors, what not to post on social media and what to do if a horse is stolen from you.
Identification · In preparation
Identification · In preparation
What to do if it happens · In preparation
The first articles are in preparation: we publish them only once we've reviewed their content and their sources. See what's coming
We haven't published anything yet. This is where you'll find project updates, changes in regulations and press coverage about horse theft — always saying where each fact comes from.
We are a non-profit civil organization working to prevent horse theft in Argentina and to stand by the people who go through one. The service is free and always will be.
We work by three rules we don't negotiate:
An advisory board accompanies the project's decisions.
What people ask us most.
A non-profit civil organization working to prevent horse theft in Argentina and to stand by the people who go through one. You register your animals before anything happens and, if they are stolen, we write the draft police report for you and walk you through the first hours.
Nothing. Alerta Equina is free and always will be: it's a tool made available to Argentina's equine community.
You create an account and enter the markings, the photos and the paperwork for each animal before anything happens. We don't use biometrics or image recognition: we only ask for the data needed to identify the horse if the day ever comes.
You tell us from your account. Using what you already entered, we write the draft police report and the filing for the prosecutor's office, and we give you the list of what to do in the first 24 hours. They are documents for you to review and file yourself.
Everything you add stays in one place, with its date and time: the photos and paperwork you upload, what you told us and the updates on the case. You can present that record wherever it's needed, without having to pull information together at the last minute.
Yes. The anonymous channel doesn't ask for an account or log your IP, and we never publish the name of a suspect. When you send it you get a code to check the status whenever you want, without identifying yourself.
We ask for as little data as possible and we store it in South America. When someone has to decide whether two horses are the same one, a person decides that, not a machine. The project is built to comply with Argentina's Law 25.326 on personal data protection.
No, and this isn't legal advice either. We help you arrive at the police station and the prosecutor's office with everything ready. That's why we also publish contact details for police stations, prosecutors' offices and agencies by district, with the date we last verified each entry.
Anonymous channel
You don't need to register or say who you are. We don't store your IP or any data that identifies you. When you send it you get a code to check the status whenever you want.
Tell us what I know