Coyote hunting contest enrages conservationists

Eleven coyotes were killed in a hunting contest this weekend in a remote area outside Bakersfield, California.

The killings are legal, but they’ve outraged conservationists who are working to ban predator killing competitions state-wide in California.

Camilla Fox is the executive director of Project Coyote, one of several environmental groups who’ve petitioned the California Fish and Game Commission to ban the contests.

Listen to the interview with Camilla Fox Coyote on KPCC Southern California Public Radio