by Project Coyote | Oct 8, 2020 | In the News
The mission of Wildlife Services, an office in the Department of Agriculture (USDA), is “to provide federal leadership and expertise to resolve wildlife conflicts to allow people and wildlife to coexist.” In practice, that means slaughtering animals in droves. New data the USDA released this week shows that in 2019, the program killed approximately 1.2 million animals native to North America. That includes hundreds of gray wolves, black bears, and bobcats, thousands of red foxes, tens of thousands of beavers, and hundreds of thousands of birds. Fewer than 3,000 of those animals were killed unintentionally.
by Project Coyote | Oct 8, 2020 | In the News
The National Park Service has released its management plan for Agriculture in the Point Reyes National Seashore. That is right—agriculture in a national park system unit. The decision to continue livestock production in Point Reyes National Seashore demonstrates once again why allowing any commercial resource use in our parklands compromises the primary goals of our park system—which is to manage public lands for public values, not private profit.
by Project Coyote | Oct 8, 2020 | In the News
Thank you, Gov. Newsom, for signing California Assembly Bill 1788, making California the first state in the nation to effectively ban rodenticides found locally in black poison boxes and seen throughout our neighborhoods and cities. This hard-fought bill imposes a moratorium on the use of second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides, thereby saving the lives of thousands of mountain lions. Bobcats, owls, hawks, coyotes and other non-target species have suffered and died, victims of secondary exposure from these deadly rat poisons.
by Project Coyote | Sep 22, 2020 | In the News
Today, wolves, coyotes and other predators are still considered public enemy number one in many ranching communities. But a growing body of research indicates that killing predators doesn’t actually help prevent attacks, and may in fact lead to increased conflicts between humans and livestock.
by Project Coyote | Jul 24, 2020 | In the News, Letter to the Editor
Whether habitat for endangered species should be compromised to allow human economic activity in a National Seashore is a value judgment. Whether native wildlife in a National Seashore should be killed to promote human economic interests is a value judgment.
by Project Coyote | Jul 23, 2020 | In the News
Marty Griffin has witnessed the transformation of the Bay Area in ways that most people would only know through old photographs and history books.
