Government plans to euthanize hundreds of desert tortoises after budget cuts to refuge
A combination of federal budget austerity and the dramatic decline of the Nevada housing market may claim some unlikely victims: desert tortoises.
The Desert Tortoise Conservation Center — a 23-year-old federal refuge in Las Vegas for the threatened species — has collected only $290,000 from its primary funding source of local developer fees over the last 11 months, the AP reports. The center can’t count on the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service or Nevada Department of Wildlife to make up the shortfall on the center’s $1 million annual operating budget because of federal and state budget constraints.
The result? Center administrators are planning to close the 220-acre facility in 2014 and euthanize about half of the 1400 tortoises under their protection, the AP reports. No more than 100,000 of the desert tortoises are believed to exist in the wild. Most of the tortoises there are former pets returned to their habitat once the government classified the species as threatened — one step short of endangered. And most are too feeble to be returned to the wild, the AP reports.
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That puts a lie to the reason the last rancher in Clarke County NV is being shut down. His family has held grazing rights on the public land since 1877, now the unconstitutional federal bureau of land mgmt. wants the money or the removal of cattle. It doesn’t matter that the tortoises have been downgraded to ‘threatened’ from ‘endangered’ or that they eat the cow dung, not the grasses. Now the tortoises will be killed and the rancher will have his cattle stolen, only the feds win.
This is one more forceful shut down of a food producer. The farmers and ranchers are disappearing, where will your food come from?