Sep 19, 2017 | Litigation
Conservation groups, aiming to end California’s dwindling fur trade, filed a lawsuit Wednesday that would force state wildlife authorities to raise license fees to levels required by law to cover the full costs of regulating the trapping, killing and skinning of wild...
Jul 28, 2017 | Bobcat, Economic Analysis
Summary of Study from Wyoming Untrapped During the winter of 2016, a bobcat was frequently seen near the Madison River in Yellowstone. This single bobcat brought in tourists, photographers, and wildlife watchers from nationwide which resulted in an economic benefit to...
Jul 19, 2017 | Bobcat, Economic Analysis
Nice write-up in the Washington Post. Tourism is huge in New Mexico producing 100,000 jobs and generating over $2 billion in total annual income. Trapping, not so much. A bobcat’s economic value depreciates almost 1,000 times the moment you put a bullet in it. This is...
Apr 25, 2017 | Fur Trade
WARNING: VIOLENT IMAGERY OF ANIMALS TRAPPED, MUTILATED AND KILLED
Mar 18, 2017 | 2017 Legislative Session SB 286
UPDATE MARCH 18, 2017 The New Mexico legislature ended its 2017 session today without any further action on SB 286, the NM WILDLIFE PROTECTION & PUBLIC SAFETY ACT. This billed stalled in its first hearing in the Senate Conservation Committee and no further action...
Mar 6, 2017 | 2017 Legislative Session SM 100, Legislation, NM Department of Game and Fish
SENATE MEMORIAL 100 53rd legislature – STATE OF NEW MEXICO – first session, 2017 INTRODUCED BY Pete Campos A MEMORIAL REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISH TO ENGAGE IN A DIALOGUE REGARDING THE FUTURE OF TRAPPING IN NEW MEXICO. WHEREAS, New Mexico is...
Mar 3, 2017 | 2017 Legislative Session SB 286, Cruelty, Legislation, Public Lands
By David J. Forjan / Tularosa Resident Friday, March 3rd, 2017 In the six decades I’ve been on this planet, American society has become continuously more violent. Movies, TV shows, video games. Mass shootings at churches, temples, mosques, schools. No one single event...
Feb 21, 2017 | Legislation, Public Lands, Wildlife
Mary Katherine Ray discusses Legislation on Trapping, Poisoning & Hunting Contests with Mary Katherine Ray, Sierra Club, Rio Grande Chapter on The Richard Eeds Show – February 14,...
Feb 19, 2017 | 2017 Legislative Session SB 286, Legislation
Senate Bill 286, the NM WILDLIFE PROTECTION & PUBLIC SAFETY ACT to prohibit traps and poisons on New Mexico’s public lands has been rescheduled in the Senate Conservation Committee. It was taken off the agenda last week but is now back on. It will be heard...
Feb 5, 2017 | Bobcat, Illegal Trapping, Trap Injuries, Waste, Wildlife
Albuquerque Journal, February 1, 2017 For years, those who support the archaic and barbaric practice of using leghold, bodygrip and snare traps have argued it’s simply a way of life and livelihood for a segment of New Mexico’s population. They wax nostalgic about...
Jan 30, 2017 | Bobcat, Illegal Trapping, Trap Injuries, Waste, Wildlife
By Rick Nathanson / Albuquerque Journal From time to time, Christine Landers would encounter the same “beautiful” male bobcat in her Placitas barn early in the morning when she awoke to feed her horses and do other chores. They would briefly make eye contact before...
Jan 23, 2017 | Cougar, Endangered Species, Litigation, NM State Game Commission
A federal magistrate judge is allowing a lawsuit that asserts a state wildlife agency’s decision to open a cougar trapping season on public lands violates the Endangered Species Act to proceed. The cougar trapping season, which began Nov. 1 and ends March 31, is the...
Jan 21, 2017 | Cruelty, Dog, Editorial, Endangered Species, Legislation, Public Lands, Wildlife
There is a trio of wildlife bills proposed this legislative session that would cost the state – and thus taxpayers – nothing in cash while earning them the moral high ground when it comes to respecting New Mexico’s wildlife and ecosystems, which belong to those same...
Jan 18, 2017 | Abuse, Trap Injuries, Waste, Wildlife
A provocative exposé of the corrupt and inhumane trapping industry that kills between four and five million animals annually, perpetuated indiscriminately by the Wildlife Services arm of the US government.
Nov 22, 2016 | Cibola National Forest, Dog, Illegal Trapping, Public Lands
By Chris Quintana / Albuquerque Journal Staff Writer CIBOLA NATIONAL FOREST – John Ussery and his 25-pound dog Cub were finishing a hike in the Cibola National Forest on Saturday when Ussery heard “terrible screaming.” Ussery and a friend rushed from the road and...
Nov 4, 2016 | How to Release Dog from Trap, Uncategorized
Oct 14, 2016 | Cruelty
Steel-jaw leghold traps, widely criticized for being indiscriminate and inhumane, are presently prohibited or significantly restricted in the majority of countries around the world-but not the United States. According to research released today by the Library of...
Mar 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
Animal Protection of New Mexico, The Humane Society of the United States and New Mexico citizens announce appeal of the State Game Commission’s cougar trapping rule In a joint effort to ensure responsible, science-based wildlife management practices and protect...
Jan 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
First, Rep. Zachary Cook, R-Ruidoso, introduced legislation that would have allowed for the indiscriminate killing of cougars. It would have legalized the same kind of hunting contests we now have with coyotes – shoot as many as you can and then leave the...
Jan 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
Z Jacobson was hiking with her dogs, Noodles and Lulu, and a friend along a new trail off Old Buckman Road in the Santa Fe National Forest on Thanksgiving Day. During the hike, they walked over to a cliff and were admiring the view when Jacobson heard what she...
