Opinion: Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation Urges Residents to Speak Out Against ‘Extreme Acts of Cruelty’
Each year, thousands of animals, including bobcats, coyotes, foxes, wolves, snakes and many others, are unethically hunted during wildlife killing contests/competitions.
WHAT KIND OF CONTEST IS THIS?
Sport hunting is one of the most controversial topics we cover on the Animals desk. It’s an emotional issue that inevitably leads to debates about ethics, sustainability, sportsmanship, and even sovereignty. Today, I’m going to turn the newsletter over to National Geographic Explorer Filipe DeAndrade, whose new film takes a deep dive into one of the most controversial types of hunting of all: wildlife killing contests.
It’s coyote-killing season in Pennsylvania. Are the hunts barbaric or necessary population control?
A dead Eastern coyote hung upside down above a bucket of dried blood in a rural Pennsylvania fire hall, its lips locked in a perpetual snarl.
Some men crouched beside it, while other adults twirled spaghetti with a fork, looking on from aluminum chairs. Children held canned sodas and stared.
Of Mexican Wolves and Their Habitat
The Arizona Game and Fish Department has been busy promoting recently published research which documents ample habitat for Mexican wolves in Mexico. This supports the recovery criteria in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s official recovery plan and the Department’s desire to assume management of Mexican wolves, which will occur when the delisting criteria have been met.