Mass Firing Of US Fish & Wildlife Service Employees

[Pantheraman]

"The National Wildlife Refuge Association is deeply alarmed by today’s Department of the Interior (DOI)-wide termination of approximately 420 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) employees, many of whom are critical to the mission of the National Wildlife Refuge System (Refuge System). These firings, which disproportionately target biologists and natural resource professionals, are a direct attack on science-based conservation and the future of America’s wildlife.

According to reports, these positions were deemed “not in the public interest” by DOI—an assertion that fundamentally ignores the role these professionals play in protecting and restoring our nation’s wildlife and wild places."

Mass Firing of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Employees Threaten National Wildlife Refuge System & Conservation — The National Wildlife Refuge Association

Not in the public interest? People literally need those individuals to maintain the areas that they enjoy...oh yeah that's right. This isn't for the people is it? It's for the special interest groups who hire lobbyists to bribe politicians into doing their bidding. Weakening the USFWS, causing them to be even more incompetent and then using said incompetence as a reason to weaken or worse, do away with the Endangered Species Act. And the special interest groups are happy as can be.

 

[Pantheraman]

These park rangers oversaw Florida’s only manatee refuge. Then they were fired.

"The next day, Ryver was invited to a work call with hundreds of other federal wildlife service staff. They were all being let go.

Ryver was one of two full-time refuge employees — a quarter of the staff — fired amid the Trump administration’s push to trim the federal workforce and get rid of “waste.” Also let go was Emily Jung, who helped oversee visitor services. All told, the Interior Department has laid off roughly 2,300 people in recent days."

Waste? With a system that's chronically underfunded and understaffed as it is, and since clearly these employees did a good job, I'd hardly call them and the work they did a waste. And it's no wonder why the USFWS is incompetent, and now the problem will just get even worse. Which is exactly what a government that's controlled by corporations and special interests wants.