U.S. Department of Agriculture: Stop Killing Wildlife
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Nearly 1,000 people have joined our cause in the last 24 hours and now, Fox News is covering the story and the need to overhaul this rogue agency inappropriately named “Wildlife Services.”
Thank you so much for sharing this issue with your friends, family and colleagues.
The USDA’s Predator Control program, Wildlife Services, is cruel, ineffective, and detrimental. Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-Org) is a wonderful champion for wildlife, along with Rep. John Campbell (R-Calif), who are reaching across the political aisle to conspire and put an end this taxpayer-funded boondoggle.
Keep the momentum going, please continue to share your knowledge, and passion to improve the future for wildlife in this increasingly hostile environment. Together we can end the Government’s war on wildlife!
To: Chellie Pingree (D-ME), U.S. House of Representatives and Agricultural Appropriations Committee; Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture
The Wildlife Services agency, a branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, indiscriminately kills hundreds of thousands of wild animals. We urge Congress to put an end to these needless deaths by stopping all funding to the Wildlife Services agency. Currently, Wildlife Services lacks accountability and does not explain how it spends millions of tax dollars on its wildlife-killing projects such as aerial gunning, trapping, calling and shooting, and poisoning .
The agency’s killing programs are inhumane, unscientific, and expensive. The agency’s practices need to be stopped and defunding the program will put an end to their unnecessary attacks on wild animals.
Every year hundreds of thousands of our nation’s most majestic animals (wolves, coyotes, grizzly bears, mountain lions, and others) are being poisoned, trapped and gunned down by the government. These wild native carnivores play an important roles in their ecosystems and should be protected. Biologists, economists, and federal oversight agencies have all criticized the efficacy of Wildlife Services’ practices of emphasizing extermination of animals over practical non-lethal solutions.
Few taxpayers realize that we help fund an agency called “Wildlife Services”, a branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that wages a dirty war on America’s wildlife. Between 2004 and 2011, Wildlife Services killed over 26 million animals purportedly to “protect” agribusiness or “bolster” hunting opportunities – a contention based on unsupported myths. The agency spends over $100 million each year on wildlife-killing actions and is unnecessary because very few domestic livestock are actually killed by native carnivores such as coyotes and wolves. Most livestock die from illness, weather, and birthing problems, but not from predation. In fact, of the total cattle inventory in the United States, less than 1% die from predation. Wildlife Services remains out of sync with most Americans’ view of sustainable and responsible wildlife management in the 21st Century.
Wildlife Services’ operations and methods are unnecessarily cruel and do not discriminate between species. Poisons and traps deliver pain and stress to countless numbers of animals each year. Also, poisons set out for coyotes, for example, could kill pet dogs or even federally-protected species such as grizzly bears or California condors.
We’re spreading the message that we need to co-exist, not kill these beautiful animals. We’re asking Congress to defund this rogue and cruel agency.
More Information:
- Sacramento Bee: “The killing agency: Wildlife Services’ brutal methods leave a trail of animal death”
- Sacramento Bee: “Wildlife Services Needs a Tight Leash” May 6, 2012
- Albuquerque Journal: “Slaughter of Coyotes an Abomination Against Nature” November 15, 2012“
- New York Times: “Public Role in Species Protection” August 29, 2012
- Sacramento Bee: “Put Pressure on Wildlife Services” May 27, 2012
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Posted by Lori Colt (Cause Leader) on Mar 12
Nearly 1,000 people have joined our cause in the last 24 hours and now, Fox News iscovering the story and the need to overhaul this rogue agency inappropriately named “Wildlife Services.”
Thank you so much for sharing this issue with your friends, family and colleagues.
The USDA’s Predator Control program, Wildlife Services, is cruel, ineffective, and detrimental. Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-Org) is a wonderful champion for wildlife, along with Rep. John Campbell (R-Calif), who are reaching across the political aisle to conspire and put an end this taxpayer-funded boondoggle.
Keep the momentum going, please continue to share your knowledge, and passion to improve the future for wildlife in this increasingly hostile environment. Together we can end the Government’s war on wildlife!
Update #2
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Posted by Lori Colt (Cause Leader) on Mar 11
The United States Department of Agriculture’s wildlife killing agency cruelly snuffed-out nearly 28,000 beavers by trapping, shooting, strangling and drowning them. Beavers from Arkansas to Wyoming, and all points in between were grossly killed on behalf of agribusiness and cities competing for resources.
A list of the nearly 4 million animals destroyed listed by species and state is available here. (http://www.wildearthguardians.org/site/DocServer/WS-Kills-2011-PDR-G.pdf)
You can help end the government’s war on wildlife by educating your friends and family, and by sending written editorials to your local paper to further educate the public on the species being killed in your area and throughout the U.S.
Thank you for your efforts to defund this atrocious agency.
Update #1
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Posted by Lori Colt (Cause Leader) on Mar 5
Since 1915, the U.S. government has funded wildlife-killing campaigns designed to protect agribusiness — the only thing that has changed since its inception in 1885 is the agency’s name.In 1931, Congress passed the Animal Damage Control Act. It required the Secretary of Agriculture to eradicate wildlife deemed harmful to agribusiness. As a result the then named “Biological Survey” initiated massive poisoning campaigns in the 1920s and 1930s that greatly diminished America’s wildlife — from rodents to birds to native carnivores.
Learn more about the history of the U.S. Government’s war on wildlife and how unless we defund this USDA agency, the carnage will continue.
With your voice and activism, we can end the slaughter.
Visit The Sustainable Action Network.
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