Nevada: Ban Cruel Wildlife Killing Contests
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Nevada is home to several annual gruesome wildlife killing contests that award participants cash and prizes for killing wild animals. Hundreds of coyotes are massacred without mercy during these barbaric events. Urge the Nevada Board of Wildlife Commissioners to put an end to barbaric wildlife killing contests!
Contest participants play electronic sounds of injured animals to lure other animals to their deaths. Afterward, participants win prizes based on the sizes of the animals they slaughtered or the number of animals killed within a specified time period. Participants then often carelessly discard the bodies of the dead animals. The endless cycle of cruelty must stop! Please act now to support this life saving ban!
In 2021, wildlife killing contests included the Wayside 6th Annual Coyote Ball in Reno, the Moonlight Shootout in Battle Mountain, the 1st Annual Round Robin Hunt in Caliente, and the Watering Hole Coyote Calling Contest in Spring Creek. Battle Mountain's Beat the Best Put Up or Shut Up Coyote Hunt this March featured side bets for “big dog,” “small dog,” and “lucky loser.”
Inhumane and unethical killing contests are not effective means of “population control.” Native carnivore massacres throw populations of many species out of balance. When adult coyotes are killed, it may leave dependent pups without protection from predation, starvation, or exposure.
Right now, we need your help to implore the Nevada Board of Wildlife Commissioners to support Commission General Regulation 503 to ban killing contests targeting carnivores and other fur-bearing animals.
Please be polite because we need the Commissioners' votes to pass this ban. Without their vote, coyotes and other wild animals like bobcats and foxes will continue to be the victims of this heartless bloodsport.
This alert is no longer active, but here for reference. Animals still need your help.