Jaguar recovery in the Green Corridor is a model for community-driven conservation
After nearly facing local extinction, jaguars have made a comeback in Iguaçu Park thanks to integrative, community-driven conservation efforts.
Court Upholds Michigan’s Shortened Coyote Season
On June 3, 2025, an Ingham County judge ruled in favor of closing coyote hunting in Michigan during a three-month period while mother coyotes are nursing and raising pups. The debate over this issue reveals the importance of public advocacy in state wildlife management.
Reimagining Wildlife Management: Centering Values Beyond the Status Quo
Wildlife management decisions are heavily driven by values. Current dominant paradigms emphasize managing specific species to maximize recreational opportunities and other uses to humans. What might a holistic, ecological approach look like?
Michigan NRC decision gives coyotes a reprieve
On May 8, 2025, Michigan’s Natural Resources Commission reaffirmed their decision to protect coyotes who are denning and raising young pups. Back in March 2024, the commission voted 4-2 to shorten the coyote hunting season from year-round to nine months,...
What Does Noninvasive Animal Research Look Like?
Here in the United States, wildlife management has long prioritized consumptive uses like hunting, trapping, and fishing. When animals are studied, it’s typically with this lens and they are often captured using hunting and trapping techniques. Researchers at agencies...
Florida Wildlife Federation joins growing list of opponents to Florida “right-to-hunt” ballot initiative
The Florida Wildlife Federation is the latest group—and the first sportsmen’s organization—to announce its opposition to the so-called “Right to Hunt” amendment on the November ballot in Florida.
New Survey Reveals Strong Support for Wildlife Policy Reform
A new nationwide survey conducted by Colorado State University and Project Coyote reveals strong support for criminalizing acts of cruelty to wildlife, including practices like running over wolves with snowmobiles.
Hunters Need Predators
Recent research on ungulate diseases like CWD calls into question the wisdom of states’ permissive, in some cases unrestricted, hunting and trapping of cougars, wolves, coyotes and bobcats. If the whole of nature is good, no part can be bad. It’s time for all hunters to recognize predators as allies, not competitors.
Wild Ground is Common Ground
In a recent op-ed, Will Marlier pushes back against the narrative often repeated in the wildlife management community that interest in hunting is waning because young/urban people are disconnected from nature and too immersed in their screens.
Why Florida’s Right to Hunt Amendment is Unnecessary
Wildlife for All has joined with other groups in opposing a so-called “Right to Hunt” ballot initiative in Florida that would tie wildlife managers’ hands and privilege hunters and anglers over the majority of the public. Read more here.
New Mexico’s Green Amendment
A proposed amendment to the state constitution would guarantee New Mexicans the right to healthy environments, ecosystems, and a safe climate. It would also hugely benefit wildlife by acknowledging that native species are to be protected on behalf of future generations as part of the public trust.
The Role of Wildlife Governance in Rewilding
State wildlife agencies are failing to restore and protect wildlife because they prioritize hunting, fishing and trapping over ecological conservation, according to a new study in the journal Bioscience.
