It’s coyote-killing season in Pennsylvania. Are the hunts barbaric or necessary population control?
A dead Eastern coyote hung upside down above a bucket of dried blood in a rural Pennsylvania fire hall, its lips locked in a perpetual snarl.
Some men crouched beside it, while other adults twirled spaghetti with a fork, looking on from aluminum chairs. Children held canned sodas and stared.
Commission honors coyote advocate
Calabasas resident and Project Coyote Southern California representative Randi Feilich was named the recipient of the 2020 Carl Gibbs Environmental Excellence Award. The award, presented Feb. 2 at the City of Calabasas Environmental Commission meeting, is a symbol of commitment to the betterment of local ecology.
Of Mexican Wolves and Their Habitat
The Arizona Game and Fish Department has been busy promoting recently published research which documents ample habitat for Mexican wolves in Mexico. This supports the recovery criteria in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s official recovery plan and the Department’s desire to assume management of Mexican wolves, which will occur when the delisting criteria have been met.
MEDIA RELEASE: New Film Exposes Wildlife Killing Contests
Larkspur, CA — Film production company Comfort Theory, in partnership with the California-based nonprofit organization Project Coyote, announced today the release of a new documentary, Wildlife Killing Contests.
Trapping ban clears first committee
A bill that would ban most trapping on public lands in New Mexico cleared its first committee Tuesday, but not without concerns raised by some senators.
MEDIA RELEASE: Video Released Showing the Excruciating Experience of Rescuing a Coyote Caught in a Trap
Santa Fe, NM — An anonymous good samaritan shared with Project Coyote a video showing the first-hand experience of encountering and rescuing a coyote ensnared in a leghold trap. This video comes at the same time the New Mexico legislature is considering Roxy’s Law, a bill that would ban cruel traps across the state’s public lands. Today, Dr. Michelle Lute will testify before the New Mexico Senate Conservation Committee to explain that trapping has no basis in science and cannot be justified as serving any legitimate wildlife management purpose.
Media Release: Project Coyote Southern California Representative Randi Feilich to Receive Award for Environmental Excellence
Calabasas, CA—Calabasas resident and Project Coyote Southern California Representative Randi Feilich has been selected as the recipient of the prestigious 2020 Carl Gibbs Environmental Excellence Award. The Award, which will be presented during the upcoming February 2 Calabasas Environmental Commission meeting, is a symbol of commitment to California’s environment.
It’s time to ban trapping on New Mexico public lands
Marie Curie said, “nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.” And yet men driven by fear want to convince you that New Mexico’s wildlife should be feared and that science tells us so. In response to a proposed bill to ban traps on New Mexico public lands, trappers are desperately pleading that we not listen to the bill’s proponents because they’re “bunny-huggers” who don’t know what they’re talking about, and that we all should listen to scientists.
New report details the many problems of traps on public lands
SANTA FE, NM—Today, WildEarth Guardians and members of the TrapFree New Mexico coalition released a detailed report that makes an in-depth case for banning traps on public lands. Touching on a wide array of topics, the report goes into detail on the economics of trapping versus other uses of public lands, common trap types and the injuries they cause, and the environmental impacts trapping may have on New Mexico. The report relies on data from the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, fur auctions, and other scientific sources.
There’s been a rise in coyote-human encounters. New Bay Area parks program aims to understand why
When Lidia D’Amico and Katie Smith rounded the corner on a recent drive through the Marin Headlands, what they saw was what they dreaded most: a coyote sitting in a roadside turnout, waiting for a human handout.
Federal Grazing Fees – The Hidden Subsidy
Greta Anderson’s 11/23/20 post titled “What does coexistence with large carnivores actually mean?” highlights the fallacy that “coexistence” between public lands ranchers and wolves is fair to both wolves and ranchers. Whereas, in actual practice the long-term “existence” of ranchers is favored over the existence of wolves, and is supported by a variety of sources of monetary compensation. One source she mentions but elects to not elaborate on is the “artificially low grazing fee.” Few people realize the magnitude this subsidy.
Great News ~ Federal Judge Rules in Favor of Alaska’s Brown Bears!
A federal court has ruled against allowing the baiting of Alaska’s iconic brown bears in the state’s Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. The Court determined that state law, and its more liberal allowances around the killing of bears, should not trump federal management of wildlife on public lands.
In the age of extinction, we need wolves
This year’s catastrophic events have laid bare the interconnected nature of human and nonhuman life.
Tell Missouri Department of Conservation not to allow trophy hunting of black bears
The Missouri Department of Conservation would have you believe its proposed black bear hunt is a science-based management tool and recreational opportunity.
Delisting wolves will mean an increase in illegal killing
We know the consequences of delisting wolves — that is, removing Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections for gray wolves — as President Trump’s administration announced it was doing on Oct. 29.
New Mexico public lands at risk as trapping season begins
ALBUQUERQUE, NM—Sunday, November 1st marks the beginning of the 2020-2021 commercial trapping season in New Mexico. Every year, November 1st through March 15th is when “protected furbearers”—species for which at least some regulation on manner or method of trapping exists—can be trapped and killed for pelts and fur, although some “unprotected” species can also be legally trapped year-round. During trapping season, an exponential increase of leghold traps, body-crushing traps, and strangulation snares will be placed on public lands across the state, maiming and killing domestic pets and native wildlife, including endangered species.
Trump administration drops gray wolf from endangered species list
WASHINGTON — Heralded as one of the greatest success stories of the Endangered Species Act, the gray wolf will lose federal protections under a Trump administration decision announced Thursday.
Media Release: Gray Wolf Stripped of Federal Protections
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service finalized a rule removing protections for all gray wolves in the lower-48 states except for a small population of Mexican wolves in Arizona and New Mexico.