A Northwest Indiana lawmaker is working on legislation to stop a training practice for hunting dogs she calls “inhumane” that has received preliminary approval by a state panel.

In the wake of the Arcadia City Council’s hurried decision to try to eradicate coyotes in the community through the use of painful and deadly snares, three wildlife-protection organizations and a local humane society have called an urgent meeting to raise public awareness about effective, nonlethal methods for discouraging coyotes from lingering in neighborhoods.

Coyotes throughout the Province of Nova Scotia will now be snared and trapped in a government-sponsored bounty spree, which officially commenced on October 15th.

HALIFAX—The Huffington Post, a well-known news website in the United States, is calling for American tourists to boycott Nova Scotia because the province has a coyote bounty in place.

Tomorrow coyotes throughout the Province of Nova Scotia will be snared and trapped in a government-sponsored bounty spree.

The world-renowned Royal Canadian Mint recently announced its new silver coin series, which is dedicated to wildlife in Canada; the initial offering features a wolf on the $5 denomination.

This is a coyote “patrolling” the streets (and not just any street, this is State Street!) in downtown Chicago. It’s supposed to be there, say the police. And it’s not alone.

The world-renowned Royal Canadian Mint recently announced its new silver coin series, which is dedicated to wildlife in Canada; the initial offering features a wolf on the $5 denomination.

New Era for Wolves and People: Wolf Recovery, Human Attitudes, and Policy (2009)

With a chorus of howls and yips wild enough to fill a vast night sky, the coyote has ignited the imagination of one culture after another.

A forward-looking and long overdue symposium called Compassionate Conservation(link is external) will be held from September 1 – 3, 2010 in Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford.

In 2003 Dennis Slaugh was exploring the wild lands near his home in Northeastern Utah when he stopped to examine a possible surveyor’s marker embedded in the ground.

When a famous NFL quarterback, Michael Vick, admitted he was the owner-operator of a dog fighting ring, most Americans were shocked and rightly outraged.

They may call it hunting, but that’s an insult to real hunters.

The killing of large carnivores in North America by means of trophy hunting, whether for “sport” or “management,” has been and continues to be a source of noteworthy and unrelenting controversy.

Their den was empty, but the coyote pups hadn’t gone far.

BROOMFIELD — Residents of this growing suburban community are about to get some help in dealing with the not-so-suburban problems of roaming coyotes.

To help deal with those situations, Broomfield has created a draft of a Coexistence with Wildlife Policy.

Coyotes, unlike many other wild carnivores, can coexist in fairly close proximity with humans, according to a Maine conservation biologist working with a national advocacy group.