The following message comes from Center for Biological Diversity as an email from to supporters of animal rights and preservation of wildlife.
Animal Damage Control was a secretive federal agency rocked by scandals because of its brutal killing of
Faced with this crisis, the agency cynically changed its name to the almost-cuddly U.S. Wildlife Services. In 2012 this "service" included killing 503 gray wolves, 533 river otters, 396 mountain lions, 567 black bears and 25,000 beavers.
But as The Washington Post recently reported, the hunter is now the hunted: The Center for Biological Diversity has launched a campaign to stop Wildlife Services' killing in 2014.
bears, wolves, otters and eagles. People were outraged to learn that their tax dollars were being used to "control" -- i.e. kill -- millions of animals every year to benefit corporations and anti-environmentalists.
Please help by donating today to our Endangered Species Protection Fund. All gifts made by Dec. 31 will be matched by a generous donor, so please donate by Tuesday.
Stories of Wildlife Services agents killing dogs, torturing coyotes and hiding eagle carcasses are true. But even more devastating is the systematic killing of millions of hawks, songbirds, owls, badgers and wolverines.
The agency uses every killing method imaginable: spring-loaded cyanide cartridges, leg-hold traps, poison, guns, helicopter gunning, drowning, asphyxiation and even starvation.
But in 2014, the Center is going to stop the killing. Please help by donating today to our Endangered Species Protection Fund. Your gift will go directly to shining a spotlight on this secretive agency and taking legal action to stop the killing.
The Center has filed a legal demand with Wildlife Services to establish rules to protect endangered species, ensure all animals are treated humanely, and publicly document all animals killed: where the agency kills them, how it kills them, which industries benefit from the killing, and why nonlethal tactics aren't being used instead.
We'll have to go to court to enforce our legal demand. At the same time the U.S. Inspector General is investigating the agency, and our congressional allies are pressing reform legislation and demands for public accountability.
After decades of secretive killing, the tide is turning against Wildlife Services. 2014 is our best, and maybe last, chance to hold this rogue agency accountable once and for all.
Please help by donating generously today to our Endangered Species Protection Fund and passing this message to your friends and family.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Kierán Suckling
Executive Director
Center for Biological Diversity
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Animal Damage Control was a secretive federal agency rocked by scandals because of its brutal killing of
Faced with this crisis, the agency cynically changed its name to the almost-cuddly U.S. Wildlife Services. In 2012 this "service" included killing 503 gray wolves, 533 river otters, 396 mountain lions, 567 black bears and 25,000 beavers.
But as The Washington Post recently reported, the hunter is now the hunted: The Center for Biological Diversity has launched a campaign to stop Wildlife Services' killing in 2014.
Please help by donating today to our Endangered Species Protection Fund. All gifts made by Dec. 31 will be matched by a generous donor, so please donate by Tuesday.
Stories of Wildlife Services agents killing dogs, torturing coyotes and hiding eagle carcasses are true. But even more devastating is the systematic killing of millions of hawks, songbirds, owls, badgers and wolverines.
The agency uses every killing method imaginable: spring-loaded cyanide cartridges, leg-hold traps, poison, guns, helicopter gunning, drowning, asphyxiation and even starvation.
But in 2014, the Center is going to stop the killing. Please help by donating today to our Endangered Species Protection Fund. Your gift will go directly to shining a spotlight on this secretive agency and taking legal action to stop the killing.
The Center has filed a legal demand with Wildlife Services to establish rules to protect endangered species, ensure all animals are treated humanely, and publicly document all animals killed: where the agency kills them, how it kills them, which industries benefit from the killing, and why nonlethal tactics aren't being used instead.
We'll have to go to court to enforce our legal demand. At the same time the U.S. Inspector General is investigating the agency, and our congressional allies are pressing reform legislation and demands for public accountability.
After decades of secretive killing, the tide is turning against Wildlife Services. 2014 is our best, and maybe last, chance to hold this rogue agency accountable once and for all.
Please help by donating generously today to our Endangered Species Protection Fund and passing this message to your friends and family.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Kierán Suckling
Executive Director
Center for Biological Diversity
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