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The fatal coyote attack on a small dog at the front door of a San Francisco home has prompted a raging debate on social media and in public forums about allowing wild predators to remain

Federal wildlife managers in charge of a new draft recovery plan for the endangered Mexican gray wolf received a barrage of questions during a public meeting Tuesday night that suggest the plan still has many

Thanks to your support, Project Coyote has produced the final version of our documentary film about wildlife killing contests. I’m excited to update you on our progress and share our next steps with you.

Last week, Project Coyote partnered with four other wildlife conservation groups — the Center for Biological Diversity, Western Watersheds Project, Animal Welfare Institute, and WildEarth Guardians — in suing the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA)

Conservationists sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services program today over its outdated wildlife-killing plan for Northern California.

A coalition of conservation and wildlife organizations today formally petitioned the Wildlife Services program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) for an immediate ban on the use of

First things first: Coyote. When you read the word, how many syllables do you hear? Your answer, according to Dan Flores, author of Coyote America, may be “immediately diagnostic of a whole range of belief

Over a chilly weekend earlier this year in Pennsylvania, thousands of shooters participated in the Mosquito Creek Coyote Hunt, a “killing contest.” Now in its 26th year, this year’s event offered $46,000 in prize money

Dave Parsons, 69, former Mexican Wolf recovery coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service -- Parsons oversaw the release of 11 Mexican wolves from three different packs into the wild of Arizona’s Apache Forest

ESSEX — Encounters with coyotes are not uncommon on Cape Ann. Most of us have either experienced or heard a horror story about the wild animals attacking a beloved pet, but how many of us

As coyotes find habitable niches in Chicago and mountain lion sightings proliferate¹ in suburban Los Angeles, the public faces a stark choice: continuing centuries-old polices of exterminating "nuisance" animals or learning to co-exist with wildlife.

A rare white female wolf that hikers found as she lay dying last month on the north side of Yellowstone National Park near the Montana border, was shot illegally, officials have determined.