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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Wildlife Services has come under fire after releasing the death toll of wildlife it killed in 2019. The US Department of Agriculture program slaughtered more than 1.2 million native species including ...

Some say Cleopatra died by drinking a poison wolfsbane tincture to avoid being taken prisoner. Thousands of years later, a similar fate met another captive queen: the matriarch of the Prieto wolf pack ...

They shot them down from the sky. It happened two winters ago in Adams County, but the federal government won’t say where. A pilot and gunner did it from a plane while flying low over wheat stubble on ...

Nearly 1,800 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees have left the agency in the last year, records obtained by conservation ...

The Trump administration wants to roll back protections for endangered and threatened species viewed as detrimental to ...

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