![]() ![]() ![]() “In this election year, in the midst of a pandemic and economic crisis, we need to question leadership that supports a program allowing for U.S. “Despite shifting public sentiment favoring non-lethal management, we continue to see executive leadership and elected officials give carte blanche to a federal program that routinely slaughters native wildlife simply for existing in the wild,” said Bruegger. Past public testimony indicates that the program routinely lies to underestimate their body count. ![]() The program brazenly admitted to “unintentionally” taking 16 dogs’ lives in 2019. In total, 146 dogs died at the hands of Wildlife Services last year alone. The boy is fortunate to be alive, but sadly had to witness his dog die from the poison to which they were both exposed. Due to the indiscriminate nature of most of Wildlife Services’ lethal tools, the program almost accidentally killed a teenage boy in 2017 with a M-44 sodium cyanide bomb left baited on Idaho public lands. Primarily at the behest of agribusiness and using taxpayer dollars, USDA’s Wildlife Services uses traps, snares, poisons, and aerial gunning to inhumanely slaughter wildlife, while simultaneously threatening public safety. Wildlife Services targets the most vulnerable and defenseless animals by destroying dens with countless young animals inside: 35,226 prairie dog burrows, 251 coyote dens, and 96 fox dens obliterated in 2019. In 2019, Wildlife Services killed: 62,002 coyotes, 24,543 beavers, 800 bobcats, 1,362 gray foxes, 1,280 red foxes, 400 black bears, 302 gray wolves, and 308 cougars. ![]() “Year, after year, Wildlife Services ignores the public’s desire for coexistence with wildlife, opting instead to kill bears for scratching trees in the woods, coyotes for making dens on public land, and wolves for preying on unattended cattle in the wilderness.” “This mass slaughter is carried out in our backyards, on public lands, and in beloved parks there is no limit to the program’s reach,” stated Samantha Bruegger, Wildlife Coexistence Campaigner for WildEarth Guardians. In 2019, USDA’s Wildlife Services program spent millions of taxpayer dollars to kill 1,258,738 native species. Department of Agriculture’s wildlife killing program has just announced its shocking death toll of wildlife killed last year. Thunderbirds exist in many cultures and myths, and sometimes, New Mexico natives swear they still see this supposedly extinct creature from time to time in the Doña Ana Mountains near Las Cruces.WASHINGTON D.C. One of our favorite New Mexico cryptids isn’t really a cryptid at all so much as a Native American legend known as the Thunderbird. New Mexico is a place of legend and spirit, and its cryptid population is said to embody exactly that. Other than the above-mentioned New Mexico cryptids, beings, or paranormal sightings, there are far more. With lots of local lore come lots of potential cryptid sightings, and honestly, we’re here for it. What kinds of eerie New Mexico cryptids are there? Another mythical creature – or spirit – said to roam the deserts of New Mexico includes the Mexican banshee known as La Llorona, and then there’s El Coco, a boogeyman-type of character said to abduct children at night. So, what about mythical creatures in New Mexico? Here, it’s said that the Navajo spirit witch known as Skinwalkers may roam (along with the rest of the desert southwest). Well, they’re “mythical” for a reason, right? Sure, you won’t find any unicorns here (bummer), but you will find some other creepy critters that might as well be mythical – or ones that are currently mythical but thought to exist anyway by many people and cultures, like Bigfoot or the Chupacabra. Not to be allowed to go extinct, scientists at the University of New Mexico repopulated the spring with captive specimens to ensure the future of this tiny, weird animal in New Mexico.Īre there any mythical creatures in New Mexico? In 1988, the springs dried up and the isopods died. These little fellas are a species of tiny freshwater crustaceans that kind of look like “roly-poly” or “pill” bugs. In the mountains near Socorro, New Mexico is a natural warm spring that houses some of the rarest animals in the world. Some of the more infamously weird New Mexico animals (and insects) include ones we can hardly see unless we’re looking for them, like the tiny-but-weird Socorro isopod. New Mexico is a beautiful state with lots to do and see, but a lot of it is wilderness – and with wilderness typically comes some creepy crawlies. What are some creepy or weird New Mexico animals? ![]()
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