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Reform Wildlife Services' Predator Control
Why does the government continue to kill public wildlife for private interests?
Overview

Wildlife Services spends over $100 million annually to kill more than one million animals.   Some of its work, such as preventing bird strikes at airports and controlling the spread of rabies, benefits the public interest, but its current predator control program damages the environment and wastes taxpayer dollars.

Fuzzy Math
Wildlife Services Should Improve Its Economic Analysis of Predator Control
Issue Paper

About 100,000 coyotes, bobcats, foxes, wolves, bears, and mountain lions are killed each year by Wildlife Services, a U.S. Department of Agriculture federal agency. Much of this lethal predator control program is partly justified by economic analyses that are often incomplete, and sometimes incorrect.