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Among the subsidies we taxpayers provide for
agriculture, especially stock-raising in the West, is an
agency euphemistically called Wildlife Services,
which sounds like an organization that provides salt licks
or improves habitat or something along that line.
But it's the old Animal Damage Control agency under a new name. It has the same mission: professional government hunters going out to kill predators, like coyotes and mountain lions, that go after cattle and sheep.
Now there's an acco
unt of poaching
by Wildlife Services hunters.
One of the hunters in Nevada reported -- to both his
regional office and to the FBI -- that some of his
colleagues illegal killed mountain lions from government
airplanes.
And in return for his diligence, he got fired because
his job was eliminated, according to Public Employees for
Environmental Responsibility. So he's filed a
whistleblower
complaint. You can read the press
release here.
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