by Felipe Gonzales | Sep 14, 2016 | In the News, In the News Archive 2016
he stories have been piling up for years. During a heat wave, in broad daylight, a coyote strolls into a sandwich shop in Chicago and hops up on a freezer to cool off. Customers and staff flee for the street, where a shocked crowd peers through the windows as the...
by Felipe Gonzales | Sep 10, 2016 | In the News, In the News Archive 2016
As of today, six of the 11 members of the Profanity Peak wolf pack have been shot dead by theWashington Department of Fish & Wildlife after a dozen cattle were killed or hurt in the pack’s territory. It’s the third time in four years that Washington...
by Felipe Gonzales | Sep 10, 2016 | In the News, In the News Archive 2016
Wildlife officials in Washington State recently green-lit a controversial plan to kill a pack of wolves fingered as the culprits behind a spate of attacks on cows there. The way the state sees it, taking out the carnivores could help prevent more livestock...
by Felipe Gonzales | Sep 9, 2016 | In the News, In the News Archive 2016
Although the protection of livestock from predators like wolves, cougars, and bears is hotly contested in the United States and Europe, control methods are rarely subjected to rigorous scientific testing. Non-lethal methods face higher standards of evidence—and are...
by Felipe Gonzales | Sep 9, 2016 | In the News, In the News Archive 2016
HUMANS ARE the world’s top predator. The way we fulfil this role is often mired in controversy, from factory farming to trophy hunting to predator control. The latter is the process governments use to kill carnivores like wolves, coyotes and cougars to stop them from...