by Project Coyote | Apr 22, 2021 | In the News
When the sun obliges, the view from the south end of Sunset Reservoir on 26th Avenue and Quintara offers a particularly American sparkle. The blue Pacific gleams to the west, the Golden Gate Bridge glows red to the north, and over San Francisco’s largest reservoir glitters, white-hot, a solar field of 24,000 photovoltaic panels. On a recent Saturday, though, a small blur smudged Old Glory. And then the smudge moved, trotting with a lope that most San Franciscans have come to recognize. In yet another feat of amazing urban adaptation for this animal, a pair of coyotes have chosen to den on an 11-acre concrete waterbed, tucked under five annual megawatts’ worth of crackling solar energy in the heart of San Francisco’s Sunset District. Depending on whom you ask, their presence is to be feared, ignored, respected, or celebrated.
by Project Coyote | Apr 19, 2021 | In the News, What's Hot
Over 50,000 years ago, in the vast expanse of glaciated Eurasia, modern humans were just one of many species scraping out a living and competing for prey. At that time, we would have been contending with many large predators – cave bears, saber-toothed cats, hyena, cave lion. And wolves.
by Project Coyote | Apr 16, 2021 | In the News, What's Hot
Wildlife Killing Contests is—as intended—extremely difficult to watch. The recently released twenty-five-minute documentary, produced by Filipe DeAndrade and Brian Moghari in partnership with Project Coyote, contains graphic footage of animals being callously slain for entertainment and prize money, only to be added to piles of carcasses used for vain photo opportunities. As gruesome and stomach-turning as this footage is, the most sickening part is the simple fact that wildlife killing contests remain legal in over forty states, including across public lands.
by Project Coyote | Apr 13, 2021 | In the News, What's Hot
The Nevada Board of Wildlife Commissioners did the right thing recently in directing staff to draft a regulation that would ban wildlife-killing contests in the state.
by Project Coyote | Apr 13, 2021 | In the News
Living in a town so intertwined with nature allows residents to hike desolate trails, ski wide open slopes and swim in crystal clear waters. With the privilege to reside in the wilderness comes the responsibility of sharing with non-human inhabitants.
