Stop the USDA From Killing Wildlife in America's Wilderness

America's Wilderness Areas were created to protect nature—not to serve as killing grounds for federally sanctioned predator control.

Yet the USDA's Wildlife Services program continues to kill native wildlife, including wolves, bears, mountain lions, and coyotes, inside some of our nation's most protected public lands. In places set aside specifically to remain wild, federal agents are still using traps, poisons, aerial gunning, and other lethal methods to eliminate native animals.

Worse, this isn't happening to protect people or endangered species. Federal agents are killing native predators in Wilderness Areas to benefit private livestock operations grazing on public lands. That's exactly what a new lawsuit challenges: a taxpayer-funded USDA program that treats some of America's last truly wild places as extensions of the livestock industry rather than sanctuaries for wildlife.

If wolves, bears, lions, and coyotes are not safe in designated wilderness, where are they safe?

Americans overwhelmingly support protecting our country's wild places and the animals that call them home. We should not allow special interests to turn protected public lands into sacrifice zones for native wildlife.

The USDA has a responsibility to uphold the spirit of the Wilderness Act and protect the ecological integrity of these landscapes. That starts with ending wildlife-killing operations in America's Wilderness Areas once and for all.

Our wildest places should stay wild. Stop the killing. Protect America's wildlife.

Please sign this petition to urge USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins to immediately ban all Wildlife Services predator-killing activities within designated Wilderness Areas and ensure these lands remain true sanctuaries for native wildlife.

The petition to USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins reads: The federal government should be protecting wildlife in our most protected public lands—not paying to kill it. It's time for the USDA to put wilderness, science, and the public interest ahead of special interests and permanently end wildlife-killing operations in America's Wilderness Areas.

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Source: 

https://wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/new-lawsuit-challenges-wildlife-killing