Wildlife Services

Are Wolves the Real Killers? Feds Count Livestock Losses Differently in the Northern Rockies

Wendy Keefover-Ring | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Predator Control, Usda, Humane, Agribusiness, Conservation, Wildlife Services, Wolf Watchers, Wolves, Green News
Wendy Keefover-Ring

Despite their immense importance, wolves are relentlessly persecuted by the livestock industry. These producers, as we show here, inflate the numbers of livestock losses from wolves.

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Veterinarian Poisons Wildlife, Brags About it on Facebook

Wendy Keefover-Ring | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Coyotes, Usda, Wildlife Services, Co-Exisitence, Livestock, Predator Control Program, Wildlife, Green News
Wendy Keefover-Ring

An incident wherein a Santa Fe veterinarian set out beef-basted rat poison to kill a coyote that ate an outdoor cat -- and bragged about it on Facebook -- raises issues about ethics, values, biology, and our ability to co-exist with coyotes.

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Government Report: Less Than 1% of Cattle Killed by Native Carnivores and Domestic Dogs

Wendy Keefover-Ring | Posted 07.18.2011

Read More: Usda, Livestock, Wildlife Services, Predator Control Program, Wildlife, Coyotes, Dogs, Native Carnivores, Denver News
Wendy Keefover-Ring

Less than one percent of the American cattle inventory was lost to native carnivores in 2010. This calls into question the tens of millions per year taxpayers spend on lethal control of native carnivores.

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Saving Money by Saving Wildlife

Andrew Wetzler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Department of Agriculture, Nrdc, Poison, Natural Resources Defense Council, Aerial Gunning, Coyote, Wolves, Wildlife Services, Aphis, Wildlife, Green News
Andrew Wetzler

Cutting Wildlife Services' budget for the lethal control of carnivores is a win-win proposition for wildlife and the federal budget.

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Wildlife Services Dodges Disclosure on Animal Killing

Wendy Keefover-Ring | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Coyotes, Wolves, Congress, Wildlife Services, Sheep, Accountability, Aerial-Gunning, Denver News
Wendy Keefover-Ring

"Wildlife Services" is a secretive branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that annually kills millions of animals. Last year, it liquidated more than four million wildlife and pets.

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The Case Against Poisoning Our Wildlife

Camilla Fox | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Carnivore, Poison, Compound-1080, Coyote, Sodium Cyanide, Predator, Wildlife Services, M-44s, Green News
Camilla Fox

Over 120,000 native carnivores -- including coyotes, wolves, bobcats, badgers, foxes, and bears -- are killed every year by Wildlife Services, largely at the behest of corporate agribusiness interests.

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Sick of Cyanide

Nicole Rosmarino | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Coyotes, Poison, Wolves, Endangered Species, Usda, Grizzly Bear, Wildlife, Epa, Environmental Protection Agency, Yellowstone, Cyanide, Agribusiness, Wildlife Services, Carnivors, Denver News
Nicole Rosmarino

Each year, a federal agency kills thousands of coyotes, wolves, bears, eagles and other native carnivores on behalf of agribusiness using two lethal poisons.

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Coyotes: Fascinating Animals Who Should Be Appreciated, Not Killed

Marc Bekoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rick-Perry-Coyote-Killing, Coyotes, Coyote-Attacks, Wildlife Services, Outdoors, Colorado, Wildlife, Denver News
Marc Bekoff

I've studied coyotes for more than 35 years, and along with research performed by my colleagues, we've discovered that talking about "the" coyote is misleading.

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