by Project Coyote | Jul 15, 2020 | In the News
Mendocino County supervisors voted Tuesday to renew the county’s contract with a federal agency that aids ranchers in killing predators that prey on their livestock. The county had previously contracted with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services, which has garnered criticism from animal advocates for killing predators such as coyotes, mountain lions and bobcats instead of considering nonlethal ways of curbing attacks on local livestock.
by Project Coyote | Mar 12, 2020 | In the News
Conservation groups and the Trump administration have reached a settlement that will sharply limit where and how federal agencies can kill wolves in Idaho. Filed Wednesday in Idaho federal court, the settlement comes after the Western Watersheds Project, Center for Biological Diversity and others challenged the environmental impact statement issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services regarding efforts to control gray wolf activity in Idaho. After a series of appeals and legal battles, the two parties have reached an agreement on how the killing of wolves can be managed moving forward in the Gem State.
by Project Coyote | Oct 4, 2019 | Action Alert
We need your help. Every year, millions of taxpayer dollars are spent on lethal animal control. In 2018, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services (“WS”) program killed 2.65 million animals – among them, thousands of non-target animals including imperiled wildlife and beloved companion animals. One particularly cruel method WS uses is poison, which can cause agonizing, slow deaths for the unlucky animals who happen upon any of a variety of poison-laced traps or bait. These poisons are also ineffective, expensive, and obsolete.
by Project Coyote | Aug 28, 2019 | In the News
Three environmental groups filed a lawsuit Tuesday in federal court seeking to halt part of a controversial government program that kills predators, including coyotes, bears and mountain lions, in ways that the groups allege are cruel, outdated and ineffective. The lawsuit challenges a U.S. Department of Agriculture program called Wildlife Services that uses leg-hold traps, strangulation snares, poisons and guns to kill animals at taxpayer expense, mostly to benefit livestock operations.
by Project Coyote | Aug 1, 2019 | In the News
Mendocino County’s Predator Control program is under scrutiny, after a group of Wildlife Advocacy Groups sued them for failing to study the ecological impacts of their contract with Wildlife Services, a federal agency that kills predators and other wildlife ostensibly to protect livestock. The Plaintiffs, led by the northern California’s Project Coyote, argue that the current practice of killing these animals has devastating environmental effects, and that nonlethal methods of predator control are more effective and humane.
