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Hi John,
America's deadliest government program, Wildlife Services, just released its latest numbers, and the tally of dead animals is heartbreaking.
This rogue program wiped out more than 375,000 native animals last year, among them 300 gray wolves, 68,000 coyotes, 400 black bears and 200 mountain lions — mostly at the behest of the agriculture industry.
This killing of wildlife must end. Help us fight back by giving today to the Saving Life on Earth Fund. All gifts through May 31 will be doubled.
The federal extermination program targets a long list of wild creatures.
In 2023 it killed more than 24,000 beavers, plus more than 2,000 red and gray foxes.
Wildlife Services even kills animals it doesn't mean to.
By mistake, 658 river otters and 428 turtles were killed, as well as wood ducks, great blue herons, wild turkeys and a federally protected golden eagle. And the methods used by federal agents are cruel: indiscriminate deployment of leghold traps, snares and poisons.
We’ve been fighting Wildlife Services for years — and winning. We shut down much of the killing of mountain lions and bears in Colorado and convinced the program to stop placing indiscriminate traps where Minnesota's Canada lynx could be harmed.
And we helped get M-44 cyanide bombs banned on lands managed by Bureau of Land Management.
We're not giving up. We're still fighting to get M-44s banned for good everywhere, and our latest lawsuit in the northern Rockies could prevent Wildlife Services from targeting wolves in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.
The feds need to get out of the wildlife-slaughtering business.
There's no scientific basis for continuing to shoot, poison and strangle millions of wild creatures.
We're becoming more alone on the Earth every day. We can't tolerate the senseless mass killing of wildlife.
Please help us keep up the fight by making a matched gift now to the Saving Life on Earth Fund.
For the wild,
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