DEWEY-HUMBOLDT TOWN COUNCIL CONDEMNS WILDLIFE KILLING CONTESTS!
A growing coalition* in Arizona is dedicated to ending wildlife killing contests statewide using grassroots outreach, public education, and state and local policymaking. This group played an active role in garnering support to encourage the Dewey-Humboldt Town Council to pass a resolution opposing competitive killing events in the city and in Yavapai County, joining the nationwide movement to end wildlife killing contests. We’re thrilled to announce that last week the resolution passed! It recognizes that predators play a key role in healthy ecosystems and that killing contests do not serve any genuine ecological or wildlife management purpose.
The resolution comes in advance of the upcoming Santa Slay Coyote Tournament set to occur on public lands from December 15-16, 2018, in Dewey-Humboldt. This brutal event encourages the mass slaughter of coyotes using weapons such as high-powered AR-15 rifles.
Earlier this year, the city council of Albuquerque, New Mexico, unanimously passed a resolution calling for a state legislative ban on killing contests. Tucson and Pima County passed similar resolutions in recent years. Vermont and California outlawed killing contests in 2018 and 2014, respectively.
Also in Arizona, Project Coyote Science Advisory Board Member Dave Parsons, Center for Biological Diversity’s Joe Trudeau and I will be at Prescott College on November 29for a screening of KILLING GAMES ~ Wildlife In The Crosshairs. Project Coyote Program Associate Matt Francis will introduce the film, and Dave, Joe and I will lead a panel discussion following the screening.
We have close ties to Prescott College — I did my graduate studies there with Dave serving as my Advisor, and Joe is recent adjunct faculty and a regular guest classroom speaker — and we’re very much looking forward to sharing our film with the community. Click here for more information and to RSVP.
Thank you for your continued support — and we hope to see you at Prescott College on November 29th!
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Camilla H. Fox
Founder & Executive Director
*Coalition members include:
Project Coyote, a national non-profit organization and a North American coalition of scientists, educators, ranchers, and citizen leaders promoting compassionate conservation and coexistence between people and wildlife through education, science and advocacy.
I AM WOLF NATION — The power of the collective, working to protect the wolf and other persecuted wildlife
Center for Biological Diversity, a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than one million members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places
The Humane Society of the United States, a national nonprofit that has celebrated the protection of all animals and confronted all forms of cruelty. We and our affiliates are the nation’s largest provider of hands-on services for animals, caring for more than 100,000 animals each year, and we prevent cruelty to millions more through our advocacy campaigns. Read about our more than 60 years of transformational change for animals and people at HumaneSociety.org.
PLEASE SEE PROJECT COYOTE’S WILDLIFE KILLING CONTEST FACT SHEET FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
Watch a 60-second trailer of Project Coyote’s documentary film, KILLING GAMES ~ Wildlife In The Crosshairs, here.
