Five Blood-Chilling Facts About Wildlife "Services"
An Animal Rights Article from All-Creatures.org

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Exposing the Big Game
March 2014

Federal agents indiscriminately kill more than three million animals – from endangered species to house pets – every year.

wildlife services wolf
Image from Jim Robertson,
Animals in the Wild

Here are five blood-chilling facts about this rogue agency, USDA Wildlife Services. that have come to light in recent years:

  • According to their own records, Wildlife Services killed 3,352,378 animals in 2012 alone. Among the victims: wolves, coyotes, beavers, bobcats, great blue herons, and sandhill cranes.
  • The agency’s lethal methods are varied and indiscriminate. They include aerial gunning, cyanide gas, leg hold traps, poison, and neck snares.
  • Unintended killings are common, and include thousands of endangered and other imperiled species, domestic dogs and other house pets.
  • Cover-ups are routine. Former agency hunters have admitted to doctoring records and burying golden eagles caught in neck snares under orders from higher-ups. In Idaho, they even refused to admit to aerial gunning operations until after 23 wolves had been killed!
  • This wanton slaughter is funded mostly with federal and state taxpayer dollars. At a time when federal conservation programs are being cut to the bone, these wildlife exterminators provide subsidized services to ranchers and others who request their help and will hire out their killing skills to the states.

Federal agents indiscriminately kill more than three million animals – from endangered species to house pets – every year.

The Wildlife Services agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is currently being audited by the USDA Office of the Inspector General. But the killing continues.

Just last week, Wildlife Services sharpshooters killed 23 wolves from a helicopter in a remote area in Idaho.


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