2 Million Animals Killed by Federal Wildlife Program in 2013

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The extensive list of the 2013 killings include, amongst many others:

• more than 320 gray wolves
• 75,326 coyotes
• 419 black bears
• 866 bobcats
• 528 river otters
• 3,706 foxes
• 12,186 black-tailed prairie dogs (as well as destroyed more than 30,000 dens)
• 3 golden eagles

Operating at the tax payer’s expense, the notoriously secretive Wildlife Services’ killings often include non-targeted species, and insiders allege that the program actually kills many more animals than it reports.
Native animals killed by Wildlife Services, fiscal years 1996-2013The covert killings—which includes aerial gunning, traps and exploding poison caps—has gone on for decades with little oversight and according the Center for Biological Diversity, the agency has killed more than 26 million native animals since 1996.
“Rather than dialing back in the face of criticism, the program that has the nerve to call itself ‘Wildlife Services’ seems to be putting its foot on the pedal in its systematic slaughter of America’s wild animals,” said Atwood. “These numbers pull back the veil on a staggering killing campaign, bankrolled by taxpayers, that’s happening every day beyond the view of most Americans.”

http://ecowatch.com/2014/06/09/2-mil...dlife-program/

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another external cost of meat eating