A program known as “Wildlife Services,” a unit of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has long operated secretively for a reason: Its actions are incredibly brutal and inhumane to animals, from ...

This summer, dozens of state and federal wildlife agents arrived in a remote mountain basin, about an hour north of Lake Tahoe, with an unusual mission: to scare off the rising number of wolves. The ...

In a move that reverses nearly a decade of practice, California wildlife officials have quietly begun to allow killing mountain lions in order to protect another iconic native — bighorn sheep. Though ...