HAILEY, Idaho – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services program – which kills thousands of predators across the country annually – announced today it has abandoned use of M-44 […]
Pet-killing “Cyanide Bomb” Placed Illegally by Wildlife Services
For Immediate Release March 21, 2017 Contact: Erik Molvar, Western Watersheds Project, (307) 399-7910, emolvar@westernwatersheds.org Brooks Fahy, Predator Defense, (541) 520-6003, brooks@predatordefense.org Talasi Brooks, Advocates for the West, (208) 342-7024 x208, tbrooks@advocateswest.org Pet-killing […]
USDA Wildlife Services M-44 Cyanide Device Sprays Boy and Kills Family Dog
USDA Wildlife Services issued a statement that doesn’t acknowledge that a child was injured. The East Idaho News is reporting that a boy and a 3-year-old lab encountered an M-44 […]
Conservationists deal blow to Wildlife Services in landmark WA wolf case
News release. 12/21/15 Court rejects indiscriminate wolf killing- Olympia, WA. In response to a challenge brought by a coalition of conservation organizations, a federal court rejected plans to escalate cruel wolf […]
Idaho Wildlife Services: Your Comments Needed
News came out last week that taxpayer-funded and woefully misnamed Wildlife Services killed five wild wolves in central Idaho for alleged livestock depredation—another in a long line of such wolf-killing actions […]
Lawsuit Challenges Government’s Large-scale Wildlife Killing in Idaho
Killing Thousands of Animals Each Year Violates Environmental Laws BOISE, Idaho— Five conservation groups filed a lawsuit today over the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s failure to fully analyze and disclose […]
Lawsuit Launched to Stop Out-of-control Wildlife Killing by Secretive Federal Agency in Idaho
Boise, Idaho. Four conservation organizations today filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services program over its large-scale, often secretive killing of wild animals […]
Government Plans to Kill the Messenger
The Idaho Fish and Game Department’s plan to poison or shoot up to 4,000 ravens in the state is appalling. It’s a preposterous proposal to kill native wildlife under the […]