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While fighting to end East Bay Regional Park District's horrific policy of shooting and killing community cats in the San Francisco Bay area, we became aware that it had contracted with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's secretive and sadistic Wildlife Services division. Further investigation has revealed that the EBPRD has paid Wildlife Services to massacre wild animals and community cats for the past 26 years. Act now to stop the EBPRD from renewing its contract with the USDA!

Wildlife Services is part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. The torturous tools of its trade include, but are in no way limited to, leghold traps, Conibear traps, neck snares, body snares, aerial gunning, firearms, and an array of poisons. Countless victims suffer unconscionable terror and agony for hours or even days before dying from dehydration, starvation, or gruesome injuries.

Wildlife Services admits to having killed 1.5 million animals in the United States in 2020 alone.

Animal welfare advocates, conservationists, journalists, and whistleblowers have condemned Wildlife Services for decades. Nevertheless, between the beginning of 2015 and the end of 2021, the East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) will have paid Wildlife Services $391,630 to "lethally remove" a large number of animals including cats, coyotes, crows, gulls, opossums, ravens, raccoons, red foxes, skunks, and cottontail rabbits from Parklands.”

The EBRPD must not renew its quarter-century-long partnership with Wildlife Services when its current contract expires on December 31, 2021. We call upon the EBRPD's Board of Directors to devote its resources to researching and utilizing the wide variety of humane and effective non-lethal management practices available. The time to end Wildlife Services' unethical and unchecked killing spree in our parklands is now.

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