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  • Federal Wildlife-killing Agency Agrees to Halt Use of M-44 “Cyanide Bombs” in Idaho 

    Press Release

    HAILEY, Idaho – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services program – which kills thousands of predators across the country annually – announced today it has abandoned use of M-44 cyanide bombs in Idaho in response to a petition filed by 19 conservation and wildlife organizations two weeks ago. In a letter transmitted to conservation…

  • Pet-killing “Cyanide Bomb” Placed Illegally by Wildlife Services

    Press Release

    For Immediate Release March 21, 2017 Contact:  Erik Molvar, Western Watersheds Project, (307) 399-7910, emolvar@westernwatersheds.org Brooks Fahy, Predator Defense, (541) 520-6003, brooks@predatordefense.org Talasi Brooks, Advocates for the West, (208) 342-7024 x208, tbrooks@advocateswest.org Pet-killing “Cyanide Bomb” Placed Illegally by Wildlife Services Agency Promised Public in 2016 that it would stop placing them on Public Lands BOISE, Ida. — The cyanide bomb…

  • USDA Wildlife Services M-44 Cyanide Device Sprays Boy and Kills Family Dog

    Ken Cole

    USDA Wildlife Services issued a statement that doesn’t acknowledge that a child was injured. The East Idaho News is reporting that a boy and a 3-year-old lab encountered an M-44 cyanide device on a ridge near Pocatello, Idaho on Thursday. The dog was killed by the device and the boy was covered with the cyanide…

  • EPA Cites USDA For Wildlife Poison Violations

    Ralph Maughan

    Update: The story as told by the Associated Press. Dog died at cyanide trap set in an off-limits area EPA: Coyote poison wrongly placed on public road in Utah. By Mike Stark. The AP fails to mention that the dogs’ owner was poisoned too. Unfortunately too, so far he has failed to get compensation from…

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