Settlement Reins in Rogue Government
Wildlife Killing Program

Dear Guardian,

We have good news to share! Guardians recently reached a landmark settlement with the rogue federal wildlife-killing program “Wildlife Services” that could stop the bloodshed and advance our vision for compassionate coexistence with native wildlife.

The settlement halts all killing activities in Wilderness and Wilderness Study Areas in Nevada—more than six million acres of our public lands—and requires the agency to abandon its woefully outdated 1994 Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement, which it relied on to justify killing wildlife nationwide.

The program will now be forced into the spotlight as it re-evaluates its killing practices, and that means you and I will have an opportunity to ensure that decisions are grounded in science and modern attitudes about the ethical treatment of animals, especially carnivores.

Our hope is that the program will finally abandon its outdated kill first, think later attitude and adopt a coexistence mandate.

Our legal victory also hopefully means the program’s days of killing over 4,000 native animals every day with our tax dollars are numbered.

That means less bloodshed and more compassionate coexistence with wolves, cougars, bobcats, and black bears as well as coyotes, beavers, and prairie dogs.

Read news stories about the settlement here, here and here.

Our work is not done. That’s why we are suing Wildlife Services in Oregon and Idaho aiming to halt even more bloodshed and force the program to embrace current science and ethical standards.

We will force Wildlife Services out of the shadows and stop the bloodshed on our public lands.

Thank you for your continued support as we work to put an end to the senseless killing.

For the wild,

 

Bethany Cotton
Wildlife Program Director
WildEarth Guardians
bcotton@wildearthguardians.org

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photo: coyote—Ray Rafiti. prairie dogs—Sandy Nervig.