Oftentimes, contests bring us together in wonderful ways. The chance to hone a skill, win prizes, and spend time with your community can be an amazing thing. Pie-baking contests, vegetable growing contests, art-making contests — all things that bring us together while adding beauty to the world. But one type of gruesome, tortuous contest does […]
Tag: wildlife killing contests
Petition: Help Ban Wildlife Killing Contests in New Jersey
Wildlife killing contests bring people together in the name of death and suffering, and that’s why many states are banning the disgusting tradition altogether. Source: HSUS/YouTube Oregon, Arizona, California, Colorado, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Vermont, and Washington have all banned wildlife killing contests, and now New York. Why? Because they are widely considered as […]
Breaking: New York outlaws wildlife killing contests
This week Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation to ban wildlife killing contests in New York state. This is a wonderful moment for wildlife, as New York has been the scene of more than 20 of these senseless spectacles each year. The contests targeted a broad range of animals including coyotes, foxes, bobcats, squirrels, raccoons, crows, […]
Petition: Tell New York to Ban Wildlife Killing Contests
The state of Oregon finally listened to experts and Animal rights advocates and became the 9th state in the country to ban wildlife killing contests! The New York state legislature just passed a bill to do the same, and it awaits Governor Kathy Hochul’s signature. We must encourage her to stand on the right side […]
State wildlife officials ban wildlife killing contests on public land – Graphic Video
Four years after the Legislature failed to ban wildlife killing contests, the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission outlawed them. At its meeting Friday in Bend, five commissioners, with one abstaining, voted in favor of a rule to prohibit the contests, which have been held to kill coyotes in a few rural counties in Oregon. The […]
Oregon Bans “Barbaric” Wildlife Killing Contests
Oregon becomes 9th state to ban wildlife killing contests after unanimous vote by the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission on September 15. The wildlife killing contest award prizes for killing the most animals, smallest, and many other categories. It is devastating to the species and numerous hunters who don’t participate call it “unethical”. The Humane […]
You can help stop one of the cruelest threats facing wildlife
In the past few weeks, I’ve detailed our recent undercover investigations into gruesome wildlife killing contests in Illinois and Nevada. Nothing about these investigations is easy to see or hear. But I want to explain why we are so committed to exposing these events to the public and to lawmakers. Many people don’t even realize […]
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, […]