While other bloodsports like dogfighting and cockfighting have been outlawed nationwide, thousands of native carnivores and other species perish every year in killing contests, derbies, and tournaments across the country. In these barbaric events, contestants win prizes for killing the most or the largest of the targeted species. Targeted animals include coyotes, foxes, bobcats, wolves, mountain lions, crows, squirrels, rabbits, and prairie dogs.

In 2018, Project Coyote co-founded the National Coalition to End Wildlife Killing Contests, and together we have successfully enacted prohibitions on killing contests in seven states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Vermont, and Washington.

But wildlife killing contests are still widespread across the U.S. In an effort to daylight the hidden war on wildlife, film production company Comfort Theory and National Geographic luminaries Filpe DeAndrade and Brian Moghari reached out to Project Coyote to collaborate on a new film about wildlife killing contests. In this soul-wrenching and inspiring follow-up to Project Coyote’s award-winning documentary KILLING GAMES ~ Wildlife In the Crosshairs, Wildlife Killing Contests provides an inside look at the cruel and wanton waste of killing contests and features the diverse voices and perspectives of those who are working to end these events for good as well as those who participate in and defend killing contests.