Every year the U.S. Department of Agriculture's "Wildlife Services" program kills thousands of native animals in the state of Washington — including bears, beavers, wolves, cougars and bobcats.
So last week the Center for Biological Diversity sued over the program's killing operations in the state.
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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.
Non-target animals are threatened too. Because of the program's indiscriminate methods, pets and protected wildlife like gray wolves have been killed — and it'll happen again if we don't stop them.
We've been fighting Wildlife Services for years — and we're winning. Earlier this year we secured a ban on its 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, saving hundreds of animals a year. 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.
We're winning our battles against Wildlife Services, but we still have a long way to go.