As Indiana considers whether to legalize a blood-sport even nastier than dog and cockfighting known as coyote and fox "penning"- Project Coyote joined the Animal Legal Defense Fund and the Animal Welfare Institute in filing suit against the Indiana Department of Natural...
Posted March 3, 2011 | 08:19:12 (EST)
This week marks the 80th anniversary of passage of the Animal Control Damage Control Act (7 USC 426-426c). It is not a time of celebration for wildlife in the United States; it is an anniversary of mourning -- for each one of the millions of coyotes, foxes, wolves,...
Posted October 14, 2010 | 23:00:23 (EST)
Tomorrow coyotes throughout the Province of Nova Scotia will be snared and trapped in a government-sponsored bounty spree. The killing, euphemistically called "a pelt incentive plan," will pay $20 per coyote pelt with the intent of reducing Nova Scotia's coyote population...
Posted October 6, 2010 | 15:16:49 (EST)
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. Although the wildlife dedication is laudable, the irony of this announcement is inescapable given the level of persecution wolves...
Posted September 7, 2010 | 13:09:40 (EST)
Camilla Fox with dear friend and tireless conservationist Virginia McKenna of the Born Free Foundation
Blogging from Oxford, England from the Compassionate Conservation Conference - a ground-breaking International Symposium on animal welfare in conservation practice....
Posted August 6, 2010 | 03:09:59 (EST)
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. However, it wasn't a surveyor's marker; it was a spring loaded M-44 "coyote getter" designed to...
Posted June 22, 2010 | 01:33:27 (EST)
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. We've laid down the law that entertaining ourselves by pitting one animal against another in bloody combat is...
Posted June 11, 2010 | 15:42:19 (EST)
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.
Interestingly, most of the furor appears to have little to do with the conventional battlefield of left or...
Posted May 8, 2011 | 22:49:02 (EST)