It’s time to end inhumane wildlife trapping on public lands.

NIKKI KOLB

May 9, 2022

https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/articles/entry/my-encounters-with-a-trapped-coyote

IT WAS A PLEASANT hike through the high desert until I glanced into the dead eyes of an emaciated coyote splayed beneath the low branches of a piñon pine. My husband, dog, and I were out enjoying a warm spring day, wandering the back acres of Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary’s property in northwestern New Mexico where we lived and worked for the betterment of seventy canids rescued from the exotic pet trade. The carcass was only a five-minute walk from home.

​Forty-four states continue to permit trapping on public lands, endangering wildlife, pets, and people. Photo byTom Koerner/USFWS.

Though I didn’t know it then, this was our second meeting. In the first, the animal was very much alive. Now it was recently deceased, so fresh its eyes, skin, and patches of fur…