# @centerforbiodiv on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DPMhti3DeDH
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/35111444-centerforbiodiv-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/2e10154ed6.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-09-29T18:11:06.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Center for Biological Diversity (@CenterForBioDiv) — https://gondola.cc/CenterForBioDiv

## Caption

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 familiar wildlife to endangered species — and even people's pets.

It has been known to kill more than a million native animals every year — including coyotes, bears, beavers, wolves, otters, foxes, prairie dogs, mountain lions and birds — without any oversight, accountability or requirement to disclose its activities to the public. The program has contributed to the decline of gray wolves, Mexican wolves, black-footed ferrets, black-tailed prairie dogs and other imperiled species during the first half of the 1900s, and it continues to impede their recovery today. 

[Image description: A coyote sits in a field of cattails, looking directly at the camera. The stalks are yellow-brown, almost the same color as the coyote's fur.]

#EnvironmentalConservation #WildlifeConservation #WildlifeServices

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wildlifeservices, environmentalconservation, wildlifeconservation

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