urban coyotes

Coyotes continue to be targeted across Canada through hunting contests, culls, and policies that prevent injured animals from receiving care. Below is a list of current petitions supporting coyotes, each focused on coexistence, protection, and compassion.

Every signature matters. Please take a moment to sign and share.

🐾 Stop the Alberta Coyote Hunting Contest

This petition calls for an end to organized coyote-killing contests in Alberta, which promote cruelty and ignore science-based wildlife management.

🔗 https://www.change.org/p/stop-alberta-coyote-hunting-contest

🐾 Stop the Coyote Cull in Nova Scotia

Urges the province to stop lethal coyote control and instead adopt non-lethal, coexistence-based solutions.

🔗 https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-coyote-cull-in-nova-scotia

🐾 Allow Wildlife Rehabilitators to Help Coyotes in Nova Scotia

Asks the province to allow licensed wildlife rehabilitators, including Hope for Wildlife, to legally treat injured and orphaned coyotes.

🔗 https://www.change.org/p/ask-nova-scotia-to-allow-hope-for-wildlife-to-rehab-coyotes/u/33360323?utm_source=

🐾 End the Unnecessary Killing of Coyotes in Edmonton

Calls on the City of Edmonton to stop lethal coyote control and prioritize education, hazing, and coexistence strategies.

🔗 https://www.change.org/p/urge-edmonton-to-stop-the-unnecessary-killing-of-coyotes?utm_source=

🐾 Justice for the Liberty Village Coyotes (Toronto)

Demands accountability and policy change following the killing of coyotes in Toronto, and calls for humane wildlife management going forward.

🔗 https://www.change.org/p/protect-the-liberty-village-coyotes-in-toronto/u/33442313?utm_source=

🐾 End Wildlife Killing Contests (Coyotes Included)

Led by Project Coyote, this ongoing action works to ban wildlife killing contests across North America, where coyotes are the primary targets.

🔗 https://projectcoyote.org/protect/ending-wildlife-killing-contests/petition-ending-wildlife-killing-contest/

🐺 Why This Matters

Coyotes play a vital ecological role. Science consistently shows that killing them does not reduce conflicts and often makes things worse. Coexistence works. Education works. Compassion works.

Please sign, share, and help give coyotes the protection they deserve.

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🌿 Learn More About Coyotes

If you’d like to better understand why coyotes deserve protection, you may also enjoy this post:
10 Unique Facts About Coyotes — a gentle look at their intelligence, family bonds, and vital role in the ecosystem.

🔗 https://coyotepretty.ca/2025/08/05/10-unique-facts-about-coyotes/

This is a passage from the book Coyote America by Dan Flores.

Bright Lights, Big Cities

Photo by Johanna Turner

If it seems counter intuitive that a predator like a coyote would find life in town to be fat-city, consider this additional evidence; in rural Illinois, where residents shoot, trap, and harass coyotes, only 13 percent of coyote pups survive to maturity. In the Chicago metropolitan area, a whopping 61 percent of coyote pups survive to adulthood. Like human adolescents, male coyote pups are always the most at-risk pack members. the easiest to trap or poison or shoot. But in town young male coyotes tend to survive at the same rate as females.

In fact, only in preserved wildlands like national parks does coyote survivability compare to what coyotes experience in cities. For a twenty-first century coyote, town life is pretty obviously the good life, especially compared to the dangers of rural America. We’re going to have to start imagining cities as twenty-first-century coyote preserves in much the way national parks were in the twentieth century.

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