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Hi John,
Wildlife Services, the government's secretive, anti-wildlife program, went on a killing spree in Washington state last year: six black bears, 397 beavers, 376 coyotes, 429 marmots, 448 squirrels and thousands of other creatures were slaughtered using taxpayer money.
This animal-death machine has to be shut down. So we took Wildlife Services to court to save Washington's wildlife.
Please give today to the Stop Wildlife Services Fund and help us put this program out of business.
Wildlife Services is using a cruel and outdated kill-first plan to do the bidding of the agricultural industry, which claims to benefit from the extermination of wildlife.
Our suit aims to force Wildlife Services to follow the science — and stop the needless deaths in Washington.
Animals that aren't even targeted — including pets and protected wildlife — are at risk from the program's crude, indiscriminate methods. Its efforts to take out foxes and coyotes put endangered wolves at risk.
The lawsuit is part of our nationwide campaign against Wildlife Services, which killed more than 1.5 million native animals last year.
These heartless operations cause immense suffering through the use of painful leg traps, strangulation snares and aerial gunning.
We're winning these battles one by one. Earlier this year we secured a ban on the program's use of deadly M-44s — spring-loaded capsules armed with cyanide spray — across more than 10 million acres of public land in Wyoming.
We also helped secure a ban on the targeting of beavers, minks, muskrats and otters by Wildlife Services in Oregon. And in California our legal action got the program to stop shooting and trapping beavers on more than 11,000 miles of river and 4 million acres of land.
County by county, state by state, we're stopping Wildlife Services in its lethal tracks — but we still have a long way to go.
Please give to our Stop Wildlife Services Fund today.
For the wild,
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