President Biden’s nominee for the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) position, Martha Williams, is unqualified. Urge your senators to oppose Williams’ nomination and instead support a viable and qualified candidate.
As a Project Coyote supporter, you’re aware of our nationwide efforts to ban Wildlife Killing Contests—a barbaric practice in which contestants compete for prizes and cash to kill the most or largest of a target species such as coyotes, wolves, bobcats, or foxes. But although friends of wildlife know of the prevalence of these lethal “contests,” most people have no idea that wildlife killing contests are taking place in their home state—and that this deadly bloodsport is perfectly legal.
We want to share the fabulous news that Maryland has become the eighth state to ban Wildlife Killing Contests, joining Arizona, California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Vermont, and Washington.
Project Coyote believes that education is key to shifting the way we view and treat coyotes and other wild animals, who are intrinsically valuable in their own right and vital to creating and sustaining healthy ecosystems.
Project Coyote believes that education is key to shifting the way we view and treat coyotes, wolves, mountain lions and other wild carnivores, who are intrinsically valuable and vital to creating and sustaining healthy ecosystems.
Every year, Virginia’s bobcats, coyotes, and foxes are targeted in cruel and senseless wildlife killing contests, in which participants compete to kill the most, the largest, or even the smallest animals solely for cash and prizes. Hundreds of animals may fall victim over one or two days and are typically discarded like trash after the prizes are awarded.