Los Angeles lawmakers voted Friday to draft a new law that would enshrine a “wildlife corridor” in the eastern Santa Monica Mountains, aiming to ensure that coyotes, bobcats and other wild animals are not cut off from stretches of their habitat by new homes or other...

The Los Angeles City Council took an important step forward this week to protect wildlife. The ultimate goal is to create wildlife corridors in the eastern Santa Monica Mountains and a key part is keeping developers in check. At just 12 years old, River Simard spoke...

Why chase and trap city coyotes when they're our ally in the ongoing battle against rats? That's the thinking of a North Side alderman who is proposing the city alter its policies toward coyotes to tolerate and contain the rat predators.

Biologist and coyote expert Chris Schadler will give an illustrated talk on "Eastern Coyotes in New Hampshire" at 6 p.m on Wednesday, April 20, at the Booster Clubhouse in Ashland. Schadler is well qualified to speak on this subject. She earned her Master's in...

You are more likely to be struck by lightning seven times before being attacked by an animal predator. With odds like that, why are people so worried about the presence of coyotes?

Wile E. Coyote versus Big Bad Wolf. We think wolves and coyotes are two different animals, and we think we know how they differ. Coyotes are small, scrawny, clever. Wolves are big, fearsome and hunt in packs.

With the warmer weather arriving, residents should expect to see all sorts of animals poking their heads out around town. That includes coyotes, according to Health Department Director Deborah Rosati. For that reason, Rosati this week organized a meeting to help...

The eastern coyote, part eastern wolf and part western coyote, rapidly is evolving to assume the role of the wolf. But unlike the wolf, the coyote is here to stay. Learn its behavior, ecology, and how people can learn to live with coyote here in New Hampshire.

Over the years, Animal Damage Control has been known by many names. At its founding, in 1885, it was the Branch of Economic Ornithology. It became the Bureau of Biological Survey in 1905, and was known as the Division of Predatory Animal and Rodent Control in the 1920s.

The federal agency has been researching nonlethal means to protect livestock for decades. So why is it still killing so many carnivores?

What is it with the rural West’s devout loathing of coyotes — the culturally reinforced, knee-jerk impulse to raise the rifle and shoot one from the pickup for no other reason than it’s there?

One morning in the fall of 1980, Rex Shaddox got a call from his supervisor at the Uvalde, Texas, office of Animal Damage Control. Shaddox had worked for Animal Damage Control, which was then a branch of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, for seventeen months. His...