Beavers are beloved ecosystem-engineers: Their dams create slow-moving ponds and transform entire ecosystems. Their efforts improve water quality and ecosystem health for other wildlife while softening the reach of floods and wildfires. And yet, a U.S. Department of Agriculture’s program called Wildlife Services killed 24,603 native beavers in 2023 — at the behest of the animal agriculture industry. "Healthy, wild ecosystems will never require the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of native wil