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Temporary Victory Declared for Coyotes in the City of Calabasas!
Help Make Trapping Ban Permanent
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Meet Dr. Marc Bekoff - PhD
Project Coyote Science Advisor
Internationally renowned animal ethologist, canid expert, author, and speaker
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Support Federal Bill to Ban Cruel Traps in National Wildlife Refuges
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On July 13th the City of Calabasas announced a moratorium on further coyote killing after citizens went before the City Council urging the City to stop trapping coyotes in cruel and indiscriminate traps.
Empowered with information and resources from Project Coyote, residents showed the Council that indiscriminate trapping of coyotes is not an effective or humane solution to reducing real or perceived conflicts between people, coyotes, and domestic animals.
The City of Calabasas’ Environmental Commission is reviewing the issue and will make a recommendation to the City Council on how to proceed.
YOUR VOICE IS NEEDED! Please sign our petition to the Environmental Commission
Read more....
Coyotes Seen as Friends, Not Enemies
Coyote Traps in Urban Area Cause Concern
How to Coexist with Coyotes
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Marc Bekoff is a former Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and co-founder with Jane Goodall of Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.  Marc also works closely with the Roots & Shoots program of the Jane Goodall Institute. He has won many awards for his scientific research including the Exemplar Award from the Animal Behavior Society and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Marc is a prolific writer with more than 200 articles and three encyclopedias to his credit. The author or editor of numerous books, including Coyotes: Biology, Behavior, and Management, The Animal Manifesto: Six Reasons for Expanding our Compassionate Footprint, The Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, and The Encyclopedia of Human-Animal Relationships.
Read more about Marc and other Project Coyote team members here |
Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY) reintroduced legislation to ban the use of body-gripping traps within National Wildlife Refuges. The Refuge from Cruel Trapping Act, H.R. 2657, is intended to help restore the original intent of the refuge system to provide a safe haven for wildlife.
"The use of steel jaw leg-hold traps and other barbaric mechanisms has no place in National Wildlife Refuges or other public lands," said Congresswoman Lowey. "Body-gripping traps are cruel and inhumane, and it is time to end this brutal practice once and for all."
Every year thousands of animals are trapped on National Wildlife Refuges including coyotes, bobcats, otters, fox, wolves, and beavers—often for “recreation” and profit (fur). Animals may suffer for hours or days — struggling to free themselves from the pain.
H.R. 2657, the Refuge from Cruel Trapping Act, will ban these wildlife landmines helping to ensure that our National Wildlife Refuge System remains a true sanctuary for wildlife.
We need your help to ban these brutal devices from our National Wildlife Refuge System!
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Project Coyote in the News
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 Summer is pup rearing season
Coyotes can travel speeds up to 40 miles per hour
Coyotes have excellent hearing and can hear mice under deep snow, or thick grass
In most states, coyotes can be killed year-round in unlimited numbers
Coyote packs have highly defined territories that they scent mark and defend, which helps keeps their populations stable
Get the Coyote News fact sheet for more facts, tips & tools - and share widely!
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Education the Key to Peaceful Coexistence
How to Coexist with Coyotes
Coyote Choruses ~ No Cause for Concern
Camilla Fox talks about the War Against Predators and Living with Wildlife on Animal Wise Radio
Marc Bekoff talks about Living with Coyotes & Compassionate Conservation on Animal Wise Radio
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Integrating Values & Ethics into Wildlife Policy & Management ~ Lessons from North America
Co-auhored by Project Coyote's Camilla Fox and Dr. Marc Bekoff, this peer reviewed paper addresses the "need to make room for wolves and other native carnivores who are re-colonizing areas from which they were extirpated" and argues that "values and ethics must be woven into wildlife policy and management" and that "we must be willing to ask difficult ethical questions and learn from past mistakes."
Read full article here...
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