Mar 29, 2021 | 2021 Legislative Session, Ban Traps on Public Lands, Coyote, Deer, Lethal control, Natural rodent control, Roxy's Law, Senate Bill 32 (Roxy's Law)
BY MICHELLE LUTE, PhD As a scientist advocating for evidence-based decision-making, I’m doing everything I can to promote Roxy’s Law, Senate Bill 32, to ban public lands trapping, snaring and poisoning in New Mexico. In my testimony and prior opinion pieces, I address...
Dec 23, 2019 | Bear, Cruelty, Lethal control, NM Department of Game and Fish, NM State Game Commission, Waste, Wildlife, Wildlife Management
By Jan Hayes, Founder, Sandia Mountain Bear Watch The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish has recently released its Final Adopted Bear Rule for the next five years, 2020-24, and the news is not good for New Mexico’s bears or for those of us who had hoped for some...
Oct 14, 2016 | Lethal control
Livestock owners traditionally use various non-lethal and lethal methods to protect their domestic animals from wild predators. However, many of these methods are implemented without first considering experimental evidence of their effectiveness in mitigating...
Oct 14, 2016 | Lethal control
From their review of the prevailing research into lethal and non-lethal predator control practices in North America and Europe, an international trio of environmental scientists has determined that the science behind the reviewed research is not very scientific. In...
Oct 14, 2016 | Lethal control
A new study finds little evidence that lethal predator control does anything to help ranchers. A new study published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment found that there’s little scientific evidence that killing predators actually...
