The Dark Actions of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services are now Being Conducted in Daylight

Since May of this year, the USDA’s Wildlife Services have destroyed the lives of 1,221 innocent double-crested cormorants on East Sand Island at the mouth of the Columbia River. The excuse? It is claimed that the cormorants must be killed because they are eating juvenile salmon, who are endangered. Are salmon populations endangered because of cormorants? No, they’re endangered because people will not stop eating them.

The killings of these seabirds have previously been conducted in the dark, however a recent video shows workers shooting birds in broad daylight in the water and collecting the dead birds with a net. It is horrifying to see how confident the workers have become.

It has been said that the killings will continue through this month of October until the cormorants embark on their winter migration.Unfortunately, this is far from the planned end. These killed seabirds are part of a disturbing multi-year plan to kill 11,000 cormorants by 2018.

The harming of any cormorant is a wrongful action in itself, let alone a scheduled execution of 11,000 birds. The USDA’s Wildlife Services must stop acting as the misguided hired guns destroying the lives of scape-goated animals before the double-crested cormorants become just as endangered as the salmon they are claiming to protect.

Watch the video and read more here.

See one of our previous posts here.