A program known as “Wildlife Services,” a unit of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has long operated secretively for a reason: Its actions are incredibly brutal and inhumane to animals, from ...

The USDA’s Wildlife Services program is a holdover from the 1930s, when Congress gave the federal government broad authority to kill wildlife at the request of private landowners. In that era, ...

Hawaiʻi has lost 10 senior-level scientists and managers at the US Fish and Wildlife Service as part of an 18% reduction in ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service statements made during a recent court case show that agency oversight of livestock grazing on ...

That’s a loss of almost 20% of the service’s staff, according to data obtained through a public records request by the ...

In this photo provided by a former Wildlife Services trapper, a dead coyote hangs in a neck snare in Nevada. Using aerial gunning, traps and poison, the agency frequently kills predators whether they ...

If I were ask you to list some Colorado wildlife, I suspect I could predict that list: moose, elk, deer and pronghorn; coyote ...

In response to a lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, the USDA’s federal animal-killing program known as Wildlife Services today agreed to significantly restrict wildlife trapping and ...

According to records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, the Fish and Wildlife Service’s workforce shrank from 9,957 employees in 2024 to 8,179 by the end of May 2025, a net loss of ...