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Hi John,
Small metal cylinders called M-44s lure foxes, coyotes and other animals with a sweet scent. All it takes is a little tug before a deadly dose of poison shoots out, sending the victim to a slow, agonizing death.
The federal program known as Wildlife Services refuses to stop using cyanide bombs to kill wildlife on public lands — so we just took action to stop it.
Please help us protect wildlife by giving to the Saving Life on Earth Fund.
Wildlife Services places most of the M-44s on lands operated by the Bureau of Land Management.
That's why the Center for Biological Diversity took legal action against the BLM. The cruel killing of wildlife on public lands must end.
Last year about 6,000 creatures were doomed to a slow, agonizing death by M-44s.
It's long past time for the federal government to get out of the business of killing wildlife, especially by using barbaric devices that also threaten pets and people.
Our action would ban the use of M-44s on millions of acres of public lands once and for all.
We've been taking on Wildlife Services and its use of M-44s for years — and winning.
We gained a ban on traps and poisons in several wildlife areas in Northern California.
We forced Wildlife Services to curb its killing of beavers, bears and other wildlife across Washington state.
And we helped secure strict limits on how and where the program can kill wolves in Idaho — and banned it from using M-44s statewide.
We can't tolerate the purposeful, mass killing of wild creatures. And there's no justification for ever using M-44s.
You can help protect wildlife with a gift to the Saving Life on Earth Fund.
For the wild,
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