Help STOP U.S. Government's Rogue Wildlife-Killing Agency
Action Alert from All-Creatures.org

FROM

Center for Biological Diversity
January 2014

ACTION

The Center for Biological Diversity filed a petition in December to put an end to the massacre. We're calling for this U.S. Department of Agriculture agency to operate under new rules to ensure that animals aren't killed without cause or by accident, that animals are only killed when nonlethal means are exhausted, and that reliable information on all killings is made public.

Please act now to tell Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to rein in this out-of-control, wildlife-killing agency.

Sign an online petition

And/or better yet, make direct contact:

Tom Vilsack
Secretary of Agriculture
U.S. Department of Agriculture
1400 Independence Avenue S.W.
Washington, DC 20250
phone (202) 720-3631
fax (202) 720-2166
[email protected]

Find and contact your U.S. Senators
http://www.senate.gov/

Find and contact your U.S. Representative
http://www.house.gov/

INFORMATION / TALKING POINTS

The agency currently known as Wildlife Services has been around for about a century and, during that time, has contributed to the extermination of black-footed ferrets, prairie dogs, wolves, grizzly bears, foxes and many other animals native to the American landscape.

Devastating criticisms have been leveled against this agency for years -- for its lack of transparency and persecution of the nation's most vulnerable animals. It carries out its activities in violation of environmental laws and at the behest of a small, powerful agribusiness constituency that does not reflect the interests of the American public.

Throughout its history Wildlife Services has never had a regulatory code to guide its activities. Unlike every other federal agency, it has no rules reflecting the nation's policies governing wildlife or requiring it to hold its employees accountable. So it is not surprising that Wildlife Services has become known as a rogue agency, unaccountable to all and routinely flouting the law.

It is time for you to show your leadership by conducting a full rulemaking process of Wildlife Services with public participation. In the absence of binding rules that reform and make Wildlife Services a useful agency to the broader American public, there is no purpose for such an agency to exist any longer.

Sincerely...

Thank you for everything you do for animals!

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