Are horses good for the environment?

What an interesting question! As a mode of transport, compared to cars, horses definitely produce fewer emissions and so are better for the environment!

But if we had a horse for every family to use to travel around in that might not be good for the environment, because of the increased need for land to grow their food and it would not be helpful to clear land to grow grass for horses.

Horses burp methane just like cows and sheep so from that perspective horses aren’t so good for the environment. But horse manure can be used to produce energy! So horses are good for the environment in some ways and not so good in other ways.