FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 19, 2018
Coalition of scientists and more than 25 wildlife protection groups ask Georgia officials to cancel statewide coyote killing contest
ATLANTA, Georgia—Today a coalition of scientists with Project Coyote and more than 25 wildlife and animal protection organizations that are part of the National Coalition to End Wildlife Killing Contests (“Coalition”) delivered two letters to Georgia Governor Nathan Deal, Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Commissioner Mark Williams, and Georgia Wildlife Resources Division Rusty Garrison, urging the cancellation of the controversial “Georgia Coyote Challenge.”
The contest, launched in 2017 by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and currently running from March to August, 2018, is akin to a bounty program—which the Georgia DNR has opposed as ineffective. In its 2015-2024 Deer Management Plan, the agency states that its Wildlife Resources Division and the General Assembly “oppose county bounty programs because there is…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Vile. And what’s going on in the “Tri-State Gang-up on Grizzlies” in the West is vile too. The titles these states give themselves and acronyms are nauseatingly extravagant speciesist self-promotion.
How desperate to kill something can these people be if for example in Idaho, they can only hunt one bear? Hardly seems worth it, but that vestige killer instinct in some humans is strong I suppose. 😦