![MEDIA RELEASE | 2023 Wildlife Services Report: Taxpayer Dollars Used to Kill Over 70,000 Wild Carnivores](https://projectcoyote.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Feature-images-website-90-1080x675.png)
![MEDIA RELEASE | 2023 Wildlife Services Report: Taxpayer Dollars Used to Kill Over 70,000 Wild Carnivores](https://projectcoyote.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Feature-images-website-90-1080x675.png)
![Media Release | Legal Petition Urges USDA to Adopt Comprehensive Regulatory Framework for Wildlife Services Program](https://projectcoyote.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Feature-images-website-3-1080x675.jpg)
Media Release | Legal Petition Urges USDA to Adopt Comprehensive Regulatory Framework for Wildlife Services Program
Project Coyote, alongside coalition allies, submitted a petition for rulemaking to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA), urging the agency for a comprehensive regulatory framework to govern the Wildlife Services program to ensure consistency with all relevant laws and policies.
![MEDIA RELEASE | Wildlife Advocates Score a Victory in Plumas and Sierra Counties in Restricting USDA’s “Wildlife Services” Killing Program](https://projectcoyote.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/unnamed-1-1080x630.jpg)
MEDIA RELEASE | Wildlife Advocates Score a Victory in Plumas and Sierra Counties in Restricting USDA’s “Wildlife Services” Killing Program
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — October 19, 2022 Wildlife Advocates Score a Victory in Plumas and Sierra Counties in Restricting USDA’s “Wildlife Services” Killing Program Counties agree to suspend wildlife-killing contract comply with CEQA and analyze the...![USDA’s Wildlife Services wastes $124 million in taxpayer dollars to slaughter wildlife](https://projectcoyote.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Media-Release-10-960x560.jpg)
USDA’s Wildlife Services wastes $124 million in taxpayer dollars to slaughter wildlife
In the midst of catastrophic biodiversity collapse and the climate crisis, Wildlife Services, a federal program within the U.S. Department of Agriculture, killed over 1.76 million animals last year, including more than 400,000 native animals.