Every year thousands of animals are trapped on National Wildlife Refuges Wildlife including coyotes, bobcats, otters, fox, wolves, and beavers—often for “recreation” and profit (fur).
As you may recall from our previous action alerts, the Indiana Natural Resources Commission (INRC) is considering a proposed rule to legalize the practice of coyote/fox “penning” (penning involves sending packs of domestic dogs into a fenced-off enclosure to chase to exhaustion and often tear apart a captive coyote or fox- ostensibly to “train” hunting hounds how to better pursue and hunt coyotes and foxes in the wild).
Your help is needed – immediately- to help stop two bills that would legalize bounties on coyotes and beaver in Minnesota.
The urban coyotes of Denver were getting a bad reputation.
A forward-looking and long overdue symposium called Compassionate Conservation(link is external) will be held from September 1 – 3, 2010 in Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford.