The Dept. of Agriculture's Wildlife Services animal extermination program is currently using two highly toxic poisons on our public lands: Compound 1080 and Sodium Cyanide. Deploying these deadly poisons to kill nearly 13,000 wolves, badgers, bears, bobcats, foxes and dogs a year is unnecessary, hazardous, and cruel. It's time to call an immediate halt to this outdated and dangerous practice. Compound 1080 and Sodium Cyanide also threaten human safety. Such poisons have no place on our public lands where dogs, hikers and even children can be exposed. Visit the NRDC's website and urge the Dept. of Agriculture to direct Wildlife Services to discontinue the use of Compound 1080 and Sodium Cyanide M-44 devices immediately, by choosing more effective alternatives to these poisons for predator control, especially greater reliance on nonlethal methods.
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