Here are five blood-chilling facts about this rogue agency that have come to light in recent years:
•According to their own records, Wildlife Services killed 3,352,378 animals in 2012 alone. Among the victims: wolves, coyotes, beavers, bobcats, great blue herons, and sandhill cranes.
•The agency’s lethal methods are varied and indiscriminate. They include aerial gunning, cyanide gas, leg hold traps, poison, and neck snares.
•Unintended killings are common, and include thousands of endangered and other imperiled species, domestic dogs and other house pets.
•Cover-ups are routine. Former agency hunters have admitted to doctoring records and burying golden eagles caught in neck snares under orders from higher-ups. In Idaho, they even refused to admit to aerial gunning operations until after 23 wolves had been killed!
•This wanton slaughter is funded mostly with federal and state taxpayer dollars. At a time when federal conservation programs are being cut to the bone, these wildlife exterminators provide subsidized services to ranchers and others who request their help and will hire out their killing skills to the states.
Federal agents indiscriminately kill more than three million animals – from endangered species to house pets – every year.
The Wildlife Services agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is currently being audited by the USDA Office of the Inspector General. But the killing continues.
Just last week, Wildlife Services sharpshooters killed 23 wolves from a helicopter in a remote area in Idaho.
Exposing the Big Game 
You’ve got to LOVE killing if you work for Wildlife Services.
Would it be a wild concept that folks who work for Wildlife actually have an appreciation and reverence for it…
Yes, Gail. This decades-old agency is rotten to the core, but a real boon for the Livestock Industry, which has used it consistently since the 1900’s to rid the public and private lands of native wild animals. Billions have been slaughtered to appease this industry. Their spirits are restless, waiting for us humans to do something to rid the land of this atrocity.
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It is astonishing how little we understand that we need the wilderness for our own well being. Wilderness and its animals are the future genepool for our pharmaceutical industry, CO2 is stored most effectively in the marshes and thousand year old trees and wolves even change rivers http://wilderness-society.org/wolves-change-flow-of-rivers/ and thus contribute to biodiversity. It is stunning that 50 years after the wilderness act was signed the ignorance of these facts still prevail. The consequences of this stupid acts of killing our last resources will be felt by the childrenn and grandchildren of exactly the hunters and the managers responsible for this.
In Europe we are proud to have wolves in our capital city Berlin and stockholm http://wilderness-society.org/wolves-in-germanys-capital-city-berlin/
The European Wilderness Society is actively setting up a huge wilderness in Europe and more then 1 million hectar are already designated.
That’s tremendously encouraging news! But the Norwegians have been very hostile to wolves and I understood that in Sweden, bowing to pressure from their own Scandinavian version of rural rednecks, the government has recently taken a much less protective stance towards wolves in their country. Any information on the current status of wolves in these countries would be of interest and much appreciated.
Hi, yes we see the odd killing here or there as a form of protest.. But they are clearly illegal. Just in Januray 8 wolves were killed by local farmers and left in the street of villages as a form of protest.. http://wilderness-society.org/urbanising-wildlife/
Local police are investigating the killings, which violate both European and Italian law and have been strongly decried by animal rights campaigners with 1,500 animal activists gathering in Grosseto for a protest against the wolf killings.
Here is a map of the current wolf population in Europe which is incressing almost daily: http://wilderness-society.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/wolf_karte.jpg
Solvakia just confirmed the hunting ban on wolves in Western Slovakia bordering Poland and Czech Republic in order to support setting up a viable and sustainable wolf population in Czech Republic. http://wilderness-society.org/hunting-ban-wolf/
Here is great movie: http://wilderness-society.org/wolf-mountains-montana/
Concerning Sweden: Since the year 2010 Sweden is allowing hunters to shoot wolves. The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation is critical of the decision to proceed with the cull, saying it is against EU legislation as the Swedish wolf population has not reached a healthy level.
http://www.lhnet.org/wolf-hunting-in-sweden-trouble-with-eu-legislation/
If the idiots in Congress are serious about cutting wasteful govt. spending, they should immediately and permanently abolish Wildlife Service. But heaven forbid they piss off the welfare ranchers.
Whoops: Meant to say “Wildlife Services.”
Perish the thought.
Animals deserve our respect
Seems like a great place to look for work if you’re a sociopath!
Unfortunately people working on the field of nature conservation too often think of being privilaged. No one but them can hunt! Completely wrong! Conservationists should understand the their role is to let nature developing on its own. This means also free wildlife development and not controling the number of species. See an interesting standard for wilderness management at http://wilderness-society.org/european-wilderness-quality-standard-revealed/
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