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Wildlife Services, the federal wildlife killing agency, must be fundamentally reformed!
End the War on Wildlife
Few Americans realize that as taxpayers we help fund a program called “Wildlife Services,” a branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. This ironically named program doesn’t serve wildlife. It wages a clandestine war on America’s wildlife. Every year, the Wildlife Services killing machine poisons, traps, and guns down millions of our nation’s most majestic animals—from imperiled swift foxes to bald eagles—at the request of a minority of ranching and agricultural interests.
Wildlife Services’ policies are not driven by modern scientific evidence that recognizes the crucial role carnivores play in ensuring healthy ecosystems. Instead, they are motivated by archaic prejudices against iconic species like cougars, coyotes, bears, and wolves.
At WildEarth Guardians, we recognize and advocate for native species’ inherent right to exist and thrive. Why? Because it’s their birthright—this is their home and their last refuge. We are working to end Wildlife Services’ trapping, poisoning, and aerial gunning of native species on our public lands and shift the paradigm to coexistence between humans and wildlife.
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What We’re Doing
Native wildlife deserves to exist and thrive in their home, the iconic landscapes of the American West. We are building a groundswell of support to end the cruel and outdated killing methods of Wildlife Services.
Educating the Public
In the past 10 years, Wildlife Services spent more than $1 billion to kill more than 37 million animals. View the atrocious killing statistics and read our War on Wildlife report.
Removing Tools of Cruelty
Stopping poisoning, trapping, snaring, aerial gunning, and the other inhumane practices Wildlife Services employs.
Reforming Wildlife Services
We are holding Wildlife Services accountable and advocating for policy reforms at all levels of government.
Cultivating Coexistence
Ethics and compassion guide us in working toward a model in which people and wildlife coexist.
How You Can Help
Help protect the incredible, vulnerable wildlife of the West! Be a guardian for the wild by joining the conversation, learning about current issues, and making your voice heard. Together, we’re a powerful force for nature.
Recent Stories From Wildlife
1.8 MILLION comments against stripping gray wolves’ Endangered Species Act protections
Comment period closed 7/15/19
Save the Wolves, Save the Wild
Anyone who values the wildness of America, who wants intact ecosystems, who believes native species belong, or who wants the opportunity to someday hear a wolf howling needs to step up and oppose this wolf delisting
Why the Endangered Species Act matters
The Endangered Species Act, passed nearly unanimously in 1973, is one of our nation’s most important and successful laws. Here are a few reasons why.
Wildlife Press
Stand up for what’s right
Given the current political climate, accountability may seem like a thing of the past. But the truth is, breaking the law has consequences. After a long and opaque process, the saga of Craig Thiessen, a rancher from Kansas who was grazing cattle on the Gila National Forest and intentionally killed a juvenile endangered Mexican gray wolf (“Advocates want rancher’s forest permit pulled,” June 24), came to the only just conclusion: In late November, the U.S. Forest Service revoked his public lands grazing permit.
Read more >Doña Ana County Commission approves controversial wildlife contract
The Doña Ana County commissioners voted to adopt a new contract with Wildlife Services, a federal program under the Department of Agriculture that uses indiscriminate and cruel methods to “control” what they consider to be nuisance wildlife.
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