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Fred O'Regan, International Fund for Animal Welfare

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Arnold Schwertman

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Monday, June 13, 2011 2:16 PM
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Your taxpayer dollars...killing wildlife.

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International Fund for Animal Welfare Action Alert
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Please help protect grizzles, wolves, and other wild animals

Dear Arnold,

Your taxpayer dollars...killing wildlife.

That's right -- driven by narrow agricultural interests, the federal government kills tens of thousands of wild animals every year.

Wildlife Services calls it the "livestock protection" program - but it could be called the "wildlife extermination" program because they spend millions of taxpayer dollars every year to subsidize the killing of bears, mountain lions, bobcats, coyotes and other wild predators.

Please help us stop this wildlife extermination by asking your representative to vote for an amendment that would slash funding for this deadly program.

Wildlife Services, a program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, kills wildlife simply because private livestock producers ask them to. The animals are caught in traps and snares, shot from helicopters, poisoned with cyanide and other deadly toxins, and pups and cubs may be killed in their dens.

In addition to its cost and cruelty, the Wildlife Service’s livestock protection program harms the environment by removing large numbers of ecologically important predators from the landscape.

And some of their methods, such as the use of poison traps, put people and pets at risk of accidental poisoning. Further, Wildlife Services fails to provide incentives for livestock operators to try to prevent conflicts with carnivores.

Reps. John Campbell of California and Peter DeFazio of Oregon are offering an amendment to this year's federal Agriculture Department spending bill that would cut federal funding for Wildlife Services to kill wild carnivores to benefit private livestock operations.

Please urge your representative to vote for the Campell-Defazio Wildlife Services amendment.

This vote could take place as soon as Tuesday, June 14, so please act now!

Thank you,

Fred O'Regan Signature

Fred O'Regan
IFAW President Fred O'Regan

PS. It's hard to believe that millions of taxpayer dollars are spent every year on killing wildlife, especially during our current economic crisis. Please urge your representative to stop this costly and cruel killing of wildlife.
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