As Indiana considers whether to legalize a blood-sport even nastier than dog and cockfighting known as coyote and fox “penning”- Project Coyote joined the Animal Legal Defense Fund and the Animal Welfare Institute in filing suit against the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and its director Robert Carter Jr. over the Department’s decision to waive state permit requirements for a controversial Greene County coyote and fox penning facility.
On the second floor of San Francisco’s animal control offices, a poster-board map of the city sports blue, yellow and red pushpins, each one marking a coyote sighting.
This week marks the 80th anniversary of passage of the Animal Control Damage Control Act (7 USC 426-426c).
Coyotes are once again in the news, portrayed as vicious predators (link is external).
Rodents can be a nuisance, especially when they move into our buildings and storage areas.
Between 1st and 3rd September 2010 the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) and the Born Free Foundation hosted the Compassionate Conservation Symposium at Lady Margaret Hall, a college closely associated with WildCRU at the University of Oxford. One of the speakers was Camilla Fox.