Tag: USDA Wildlife Services

September 25, 2020

Watch: World Rabies Day video shares USDA program’s work

Every day biologists and specialists of the USDA’s National Rabies Management Program work to protect the public, wildlife, pets and the nation’s food supply through many different work activities. These...

August 6, 2019

Rabies vaccination targets raccoons in Maine

USDA Wildlife Services is spreading more than 300,000 rabies vaccine baits in Maine in an effort to address the spread of rabies in raccoons (Procyon lotor). The bait will be...

September 21, 2018

The Return of an odious invader — from The Wildlife Professional

Cooperation to conquer screwworm and protect Key deer Imagine happening upon an animal through a cloud of flies and the smell of decay, its body full of wriggling maggots as...

September 20, 2018

Wildlife Services responds to typhoon

While most mainland U.S. residents were focusing on the potential of Hurricane Florence to harm coasts in the Southeast, other American territories were under threat from another massive and damaging...