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Challenging USDA Redaction of Geese Culling Contract
Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a lawsuit against the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) over the agency’s critical redactions in a contract between the USDA’s Wildlife Services program and a Colorado slaughterhouse. -
Challenging Wildlife Services for Violating NEPA
The Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services, arguing the wildlife-killing agency failed to reconsider the environmental effects of killing wildlife. -
Urging Humboldt County, CA to Terminate Contract with Wildlife-Killing Federal Agency
The Animal Legal Defense Fund sent a letter to the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors and Humboldt County Agriculture Commissioner, urging them to terminate their contract with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services. -
Coalition Urges Humboldt County to Void Illegal Lethal Contract with Federal Wildlife-Killing Agency
Today, a coalition of animal protection and conservation groups sent a letter to the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors and Humboldt County Agriculture Commissioner, urging them to terminate their contract with the USDA.April 30, 2019 Press Release -
Ben the Bear Caged at Roadside Zoo in North Carolina
In 2012, the Animal Legal Defense Fund, along with PETA and two residents of Cumberland County, North Carolina, filed suit against Jambbas Ranch Tours in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The roadside zoo had numerous “Animal (AWA) citations…
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Siskiyou County Suspends Contract With Federal Wildlife Killing Program
Siskiyou is the latest county in California to reexamine and suspend its contract with Wildlife Services amid legal pressure from the animal-protection and conservation coalition led by the Animal Legal Defense Fund.August 24, 2018 News -
Shasta County Suspends Contract with Wildlife Killing Agency After Pressure from the Animal Legal Defense Fund
On July 20, 2018 the Animal Legal Defense Fund celebrated its latest win for wildlife in California as Shasta County officials announced the county would suspend its contract with the notorious federal wildlife-killing program known as Wildlife Services.July 27, 2018 News -
Challenge the Killing of Thousands of Cormorants
In 2014, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and U.S. Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services announced a plan to shoot and kill more than 10,000 double-crested cormorants in the Columbia River…
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Challenge Mendocino County, CA Contract with Wildlife Services
In 2014, Mendocino County, California, entered into a $144,000 contract with Wildlife Services, a controversial federal program whose main purpose is to kill animals. The Animal Legal Defense Fund and a coalition of environmental and animal…
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2016-2018: Captive Wild Animals
Illegal trafficking in rare and exotic wild animals is a $10 to $20 billion-a-year business, the profits of which come at the expense of broken families and countless injured and/or dead animals.
