USDA – Wildlife Services 2005 Kill List
By Tony Heath
Published by Birdlandranch.org: May 3, 2007
The following is a list of wildlife killed in 2005 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture through their Wildlife Services unit. It was brought to my attention by the Tucson Weekly (“Death Count,” April 12, 2007). The information is available on Wildlife Service’s web site, or if absent, with the assistance of a Freedom of Information Act request. The Tucson Weekly gathered the information with the assistance of Wendy Keefover-Ring of Sinapu, a carnivore protection organization; and from Forest Guardians, a New Mexico-based conservation group. Keefer-Ring says, “they are definitely a rogue agency, and they don’t want anybody to know what they're doing.” So be prepared if you want to verify the information yourself. These officials are and should be on the defensive, because their work, in my opinion, is a crime against nature. Deep down they must know it.
One would think a government agency named “Wildlife Services” would have a more helpful role such as servicing wildlife? Not so. Since 1915, with an approximate budget of $100 million, the agency has exterminated innocent wildlife at the request of ranchers, farmers and sportsmen. In 2005, the professional killers from Wildlife Services killed 1.7 million animals, including collaterally, and with legal impunity, endangered species. These are the same species other government agencies receive taxpayer money to protect.
In 2005, their work included gunning down 200 coyotes in the San Rafael Valley near Sonoita, Arizona. This is only several miles from Birdland Ranch Conservation Area.
Get involved. Write your congressman. Support the caring organizations that are spearheading the fight to end taxpayer sponsored lethal-extermination of innocent wildlife.
The List:
500 badgers
1,697 gray foxes
30 kit foxes
2,172 red foxes
330 mountain lions
9 skunks
2,164 bobcats
72,817 coyotes
507 river otters
2,844 woodchucks and marmots
33,469 beavers
9,922 raccoons
1.2 million starlings
300,000 other assorted birds, including song birds, water birds, hawks and a snowy owl
6,832 striped skunks
1 Mexican wolf
Endangered Species:
1 golden eagle
3 bald eagles
2 grizzly bears
252 gray wolves
Special Thanks to Source: “Death Count” by Tim Vanderpool – Tucson Weekly (4/12/07)
Photo – Skunk –Copyright © Tony Heath 2004
Published by Birdlandranch.org: May 3, 2007
The following is a list of wildlife killed in 2005 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture through their Wildlife Services unit. It was brought to my attention by the Tucson Weekly (“Death Count,” April 12, 2007). The information is available on Wildlife Service’s web site, or if absent, with the assistance of a Freedom of Information Act request. The Tucson Weekly gathered the information with the assistance of Wendy Keefover-Ring of Sinapu, a carnivore protection organization; and from Forest Guardians, a New Mexico-based conservation group. Keefer-Ring says, “they are definitely a rogue agency, and they don’t want anybody to know what they're doing.” So be prepared if you want to verify the information yourself. These officials are and should be on the defensive, because their work, in my opinion, is a crime against nature. Deep down they must know it.
One would think a government agency named “Wildlife Services” would have a more helpful role such as servicing wildlife? Not so. Since 1915, with an approximate budget of $100 million, the agency has exterminated innocent wildlife at the request of ranchers, farmers and sportsmen. In 2005, the professional killers from Wildlife Services killed 1.7 million animals, including collaterally, and with legal impunity, endangered species. These are the same species other government agencies receive taxpayer money to protect.
In 2005, their work included gunning down 200 coyotes in the San Rafael Valley near Sonoita, Arizona. This is only several miles from Birdland Ranch Conservation Area.
Get involved. Write your congressman. Support the caring organizations that are spearheading the fight to end taxpayer sponsored lethal-extermination of innocent wildlife.
The List:
500 badgers
1,697 gray foxes
30 kit foxes
2,172 red foxes
330 mountain lions
9 skunks
2,164 bobcats
72,817 coyotes
507 river otters
2,844 woodchucks and marmots
33,469 beavers
9,922 raccoons
1.2 million starlings
300,000 other assorted birds, including song birds, water birds, hawks and a snowy owl
6,832 striped skunks
1 Mexican wolf
Endangered Species:
1 golden eagle
3 bald eagles
2 grizzly bears
252 gray wolves
Special Thanks to Source: “Death Count” by Tim Vanderpool – Tucson Weekly (4/12/07)
Photo – Skunk –Copyright © Tony Heath 2004
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