It doesn’t have to. Tell Wildlife Services to stop using your tax dollars to slaughter animals by signing our petition. Instead of pure wilderness, I noticed a serious loss of large trees and high grasses, parched soils packed down by hooves, trampled, dewatered streams, and a seriously diminished level of biodiversity. But there’s a difference between killing an invasive species to prevent it from damaging an ecosystem and turning that animal’s death into a glorified first-person shooter. According to the Wildlife service’s report, intentionally killed 301 gray wolves; 61,882 adult coyotes, plus an unknown number of coyote pups in 251 destroyed dens; 364,734 red-winged blackbirds; 393 black bears; 300 mountain lions; 777 bobcats; 124 river otters plus 489 killed ‘unintentionally’; 2,447 foxes, plus an unknown number of red fox pups in 94 dens; and 24,543 beavers. The wildlife-killing program unintentionally killed more than 2,624 animals in 2019, including bears, bobcats, mountain lions, a wolf, foxes, muskrats, otters, porcupines, raccoons and turtles. Trump is an animal hater and says so. POLL: Should more States suspend this cruel and deadly wildlife program? The loud rumble of a single-engine plane suddenly exploded overhead. Firearms are one of Wildlife Services’ favorite execution tools. Healthy ecosystems depend on a rich mixture of native species, including predators. Chris Smith, southern Rockies wildlife advocate for WildEarth Guardians, said: ‘Wildlife Services is infamous for the scope and cruelty of its killing campaigns across the nation.’, ‘To carry out such a horrific onslaught on native wildlife in the midst of a mass extinction event and a climate crisis, without any real knowledge of the impact, is utterly outrageous.’. Its killing of non-target birds included ducks, eagles, swallows, herons and turkeys.

Before long, when these cows and steers would reach maturity, they’d be brought to slaughter, calves put in their place. Support ‘Fighting for Wildlife’ by donating as little as $1 – It only takes a minute. “They were big!” he exclaimed, showing me smartphone photos depicting him along with a series of large, dead pigs. Coyotes, mountain lions, bears, endangered condors and bald eagles, and other native wildlife are being slaughtered indiscriminately by a rogue federal killing agency known as Wildlife Services—a program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). The nation raises the world’s most cattle, and records show the country exported 1.35 million metric tons of processed beef at a profit of $8.3 billion last year. These awards celebrate chapters that have shown incredible efforts in advancing animal law and advocating for animals through original projects and initiatives. ‘Across New Mexico, Wildlife Services uses fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters to aerially shoot coyotes; body-gripping traps, neck snares and leghold traps to kill mountain lions, black bears, bobcats, badgers, coyotes, skunks, and swift and gray foxes; gas cartridges and poisons to exterminate coyotes, foxes, and prairie dogs in their dens; sodium cyanide M-44 devices to kill canines like foxes and coyotes; and other poisons to eliminate native birds like ravens,’ reads the court filing. Wildlife Services also runs the National Wildlife Research Center, which it touts as an effort to use the best available science to help humans and nonhumans coexist, and to boost biodiversity. Today, the Animal Legal Defense Fund and Rise for Animals filed a lawsuit against the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) for the agency’s failure to respond to a request for public records related to the inconsistent inspection process of nonhuman primate research facilities. Privacy Policy, Reckless behavior is destroying ecosystems and violating animal protection laws. Wildlife Services “manages” wildlife through killing United States’ native carnivores such as cougars. This follows 2.3 million animals killed in 2017, 2.7 million in 2016, and tens of millions more in the years prior. The US Department of Agriculture program slaughtered more than 1.2 million native species including wolves, coyotes, cougars and birds – all of which was funded with taxpayer money. “The agricultural human’s pull historically has been toward the monoculture of annuals,” Wes Jackson, cofounder of agriculture research organization Land Institute, writes in his book New Roots for Agriculture.

Wildlife disservice run by heartless gocernmentals. Who’s the nuisance to whom? The U.S. Why is the federal government in the animal-killing business? The Animal Legal Defense Fund, along with a coalition of environmental and wildlife advocacy groups.

—urging them to terminate their contracts with Wildlife Services.