No matter where you live, apex predators and large carnivores inspire awe as well as instill fear. Large predators have been heavily persecuted and removed from areas where they once lived because of conflict with livestock grazers. Beyond their large teeth, sharp claws and iconic status, research is finding they are crucially important in ecosystems. […]
Tag: coyotes
Dog Recovering After Spending Months Living with Coyote Pack in Nevada Desert
Residents around Henderson, Nevada, near Las Vegas, had seen the pup named Ghost running with wild animals and began to post sightings of the dog on social media. “It seems like he may have been put out there between seven and eight months, and somehow or another, the coyotes just accepted him,” Susan McMullen of […]
Big step forward in fight to ban extremely cruel hunting methods
A new National Park Service proposed rule marks a substantial step forward for some of our nation’s most iconic wildlife species, including brown and black bears and wolves. The NPS rule would ban certain extremely cruel methods of trophy hunting and trapping on Alaska’s national preserves. We have been fighting hard to achieve this prohibition, […]
Keeping Your Pets Safe from Wildlife
Pets are close to every pet parent, and no pet parent wants their pet to be killed mercilessly by deadly wild animals. Being a pet parent, you must also have a soft corner for another animal. Ultimately you don’t want a wild animal to be injured by your pet as well. Following are the ways […]
Rare wolves headed to South Carolina from Ohio as fight to prevent extinction ramps up
By next spring, visitors to a South Carolina nature preserve may get a glimpse of one of the world’s rarest animals. Brookgreen Gardens expects three red wolves to be shipped from a zoo in Ohio to the Georgetown County nature center as part of an effort to revive the critically imperiled species in South Carolina […]
More than 1,000 coyotes have been slaughtered in Oregon’s ‘killing contests’ over the past 4 years
Earlier this week, we led a coalition of organizations in submitting a petition to the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission proposing a ban on killing contests in the state. Wildlife killing contests are grisly events where participants compete to kill as many animals as possible for the chance to win cash and prizes. For instance, […]
Coyotes need humane, scientific solutions to potential conflicts
There is an aggressive group of anti-coyote propogandists emerging in many communities, as a recent article in the Los Angeles Times on the presence of coyotes in a dozen or so California localities suggests. The belligerence of these propagandists, and their disdain for best practices for managing coyotes’ presence in urban and suburban communities, should […]
How an alligator became an emotional support animal: ‘They said it was a midlife crisis’
Joseph Henney, 69, grew up on a farm in the same area of Dover, Pennsylvania he lives in now. From a young age, Henney was surrounded by a wide range of animals, such as cattle, coyotes, snakes and hogs, which makes owning a pet alligator perhaps the least surprising thing about him. But Henney’s gator […]