The Fur-Bearers remind residents that feeding changes the behaviour of wildlife and is often a pre-cursor to negative encounters leading to coyotes’ deaths.
The Fur-Bearers are encouraging residents to contact Council and Mayor after Coyote Watch Canada found a coyote struggling in a neck snare.
Coyote Watch Canada and The Fur-Bearers appeal to City of Ottawa to use coexistence solutions, not lethal control, to end negative encounters.
Coyote Watch Canada and The Fur-Bearers call for transparency and quicker response to feeding in the future in Burlington.
An off-leash dog, out of sight of their human companion, got in a fight with two coyotes – and the media is blaming the coyotes.
Park Board staff last night presented their next steps and strategy for coexisting with coyotes in Vancouver’s Stanley Park.
Animal Justice, The Fur-Bearers, and Coyote Watch Canada are suing the Ontario government over its decision to allow a coyote hunting contest to take place throughout the month of February.
Take action to tell your MPP and the Ministry to enforce laws that can stop a coyote killing contest in Ontario.
Dr. Shelley Alexander shares her views of a 10-year-old media content analysis, her own experiences with sensationalism and how they’ve impacted her role as a researcher and educator.
Strategies to live alongside wildlife aren’t failing; it’s time for them to begin in earnest.
Executive Director Lesley Fox shares our history on this issue over the last year and what’s next. Also, psychotherapist Stephanie McMahon discusses grieving for the coyotes.
Five ways you can help ensure that this situation is never repeated and protect the long-term health of Stanley Park and its inhabitants.
Removing coyotes from an ecosystem doesn’t change the human impacts on the ecosystem and creates an opportunity for more coyotes to return.
Following the announcement that more coyotes will be killed, we are left feeling anger, sadness and frustration that opportunities to prevent this outcome were ignored or missed.
Dr. Shelley Alexander’s nuanced explanations of coyote behaviour filtered down to one simplistic statement while interviewing on Morning Live.
This special report is an evidence-based conversation with a researcher who’s on the ground in BC’s Stanley Park, gathering data about coyotes, park use, and changing behaviour.
Wildlife “attacks” make for great headlines, but often, investigations show food plays a significant role.
Dear Park Board Commissioners, It was with sadness and frustration that we read the Conservation Officer Service trapped and killed four coyotes in Stanley Park
The BC Conservation Officer Service (BCCOS) has killed four coyotes in Stanley Park and will continue using trapping and killing more. The live traps being
Major victory for animal lovers as outerwear company notorious for coyote fur steps away; will still use down, according to reports.
Knowing how to respond to wildlife follows during a run or bike ride can make an amusing anecdote out of what may otherwise be an worrying wildlife encounter.
Feeding considered a major factor in negative encounters with coyotes in sizable city west of the GTA.
Outerwear company infamous for coyote fur clearly sees consumer demand moving away from their traditional product.
University of British Columbia students working with Dr. Kristen Walker and Stanley Park Ecology Society.
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