The killing agency: Wildlife Services' brutal methods leave a trail of animal death
Wildlife Services is a federal agency that operates in secrecy, using brutal traps, poison and aerial gunning to kill thousands of animals, with accidental victims that include federally protected species, family pets and injured people. More than 50,000 non-target animals have been killed since 2000 with indiscriminate tools such as traps, snares and poison.
• Read the initial Bee investigation here. Latest articles and follow-ups are listed below.
- Fish and Wildlife Department cancels Davis predator-hunting clinic -
- Renewed call for probe of federal Wildlife Services -
- Federal Wildlife Services makes a killing in animal-control business -
- Reform urged for Wildlife Services -
- U.S. wildlife worker's online photos of animal abuse stir outrage -
- Davis cuts ties with Wildlife Services over coyote killings -
- Wildlife Services meets with its critics -
- Efforts to investigate Wildlife Services' methods continue -
- Editorial: Put pressure on Wildlife Services -
- Congressmen call for investigation of Wildlife Services agency -
- Humane Society calls for reform of Wildlife Services after Bee series -
- Editorial: Wildlife Services needs a tight leash -
- Suggestions in changing Wildlife Services range from new practices to outright bans -
- Environmental group sues to halt killing practices of federal wildlife agency -
- Live chat replay: Tom Knudson Q&A on Wildlife Services killings -
- Wildlife Services' deadly force opens Pandora's box of environmental problems -
- M-44s lure animal with smelly bait, kill with cyanide -
- Neck snare is a 'non-forgiving and nonselective' killer, former trapper says -
- Long struggles in leg-hold device make for gruesome deaths -
- Federal agency kills 7,800 animals by mistake in steel body-grip traps -
