Wildlife Services use poisons to kill coyotes, but protected wildlife can also fall victim. Take action today to end the use of Compound 1080 and other deadly poisons.
She had traveled to four states and logged more than 1,000 miles from her home in Montana. But a female wolf from the Mill Creek pack (known as 314F), met a horrific fate in Colorado—illegally poisoned by the deadly Compound 1080.
Compound 1080—so dangerous, it is classified as a chemical weapon in several countries—is now legally used by the Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services to kill coyotes in nine states.
Compound 1080 and other deadly toxins don’t always reach their intended victims. Sodium cyanide—another highly toxic poison—kills hundreds of non-target animals each year. Protected wolves, rare swift foxes and even hundreds of pet dogs have been killed by baited traps that are left unattended.
EPA is currently deciding whether to continue to allow the use of Compound 1080 and sodium cyanide by Wildlife Services to kill native wildlife. And we need your help to ban these deadly chemicals.
Non-lethal alternatives like improved fencing, guard animals, range riders and other methods can safely and effectively keep predators away from domestic animals—without the use of deadly poisons.
It’s too late for 314F. But with your help, we can fight to end the use of the use of Compound 1080 and sodium cyanide—and prevent the poisoning of wildlife struggling to survive.
Act now to end the use of Compound 1080 and sodium cyanide—a terrible way for wildlife to die.
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