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Figures lie and liars figure." Budget kills 2012. Wildlife Services came under fire in April and May 2012.

Please join our friends at 
WildEarth Guardians @wildearthguard 
by taking action to Defund Wildlife Services
http://tinyurl.com/qgkeds7
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April 16. 2014
Demand an End to Wildife Slaughter Funded By Your Tax Dollars

Dear Guardian, 
It’s tax day: do you know where your money is going?

You may be shocked to learn that a secretive federal program is pocketing taxpayer money and using it to wage a war on wildlife.

“Wildlife Services” exterminates literally millions of native animals every year. The program is cruel, unscientific and wasteful, and can’t even account for where its money goes.[1]

We want safe havens for wildlife to thrive, not taxpayer-funded massacres on our public lands. Contact your congressional representatives and ask them to make sure your tax money does not fund this destructive, out-of-control program. Defund Wildlife Services.

The program uses dangerous and wasteful methods including traps, poisons, and aerial gunning to slaughter a host of native species, from 561 black bears and 501 wolves to 12,561 black-tailed prairie dogs killed in 2012.[2] Their crimes? Doing what comes naturally.

The government spent $58 million to kill those animals; with that money it could pay the yearly salaries of 850 elementary school teachers or police officers, provide 7,400 students with a year’s worth of university scholarships, assist 12,000 people who need low-income healthcare for a year, provide a year of 100% renewable solar energy for 45,500 households, or buy disaster preparedness kits for 470,000 families of four.[3]

It’s time to axe the death tax; demand action today from your congressional representatives.

Taylor Jones

Endangered Species Advocate

WildEarth Guardians

tjones@wildearthguardians.org

[1] See the independent audit from APHIS Program Accountability and Assessment here http://www.wildearthguardians.org/site/DocServer/May2012-APHIS-PAA-Audit-medres.pdf

[2] Wildlife Services releases data a year behind; 2012 is the most recent fiscal year for which we could get numbers.

[3] [http://nationalpriorities.org/tradeoffs] except for the disaster kits, which are priced from EssentialPacks http://www.essentialpacks.com/HOMEBASE-Emergency-Kit-4-Person-392 

Federal funding for Wildlife Services is the combined Federal and Federal Cooperative funding from 2012, the most recent available funding document http://tinyurl.com/kmz7v9h

photo credits: wolf:Sam Parks; red-winged blackbird: Andrea Westmoreland/Flickr; coyotes: Sam Parks; river otter: Sam Parks; prairie dog: Rich Reading.