BROOKS FAHY IS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF PREDATOR DEFENSE, BASED OUT OF EUGENE, OREGON.............I ENCOURAGE ALL READERS OF COYOTES, WOLVES AND COUGARS FOREVER BLOG TO CHECK OUT THIS GREAT ORGANIZATION AT WWW.PREDATORDEFENSE.ORG
About Us
Our mission is to protect native predators and create alternatives for people to coexist with wildlife.
Revered by the Navaho's as "God's dog,"
coyotes have been indiscriminately
slaughtered to help the sheep industry,
which is actually declining due to market
forces, not predation.
What We Do
Predator Defense is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization funded solely by member donations. We work to spearhead legislation, disseminate research findings, monitor government agencies, and, when necessary, pursue legal action. We also serve as a resource for reporters, elected officials, and the public.
Our efforts take us into the field, onto America's public lands, to Congress, and into courtrooms. Specific activities include:
- Promoting non-lethal predator control that helps people and preserves wildlife. Example: Read letter from the Port of Portland recognizing our work.
- Helping people who have been harmed by predator-killing devices and those who have lost pets to any predator control activities.
- Working with the press and contributing to documentaries, special news features, conferences, and in classrooms.
- Serving as a resource on predator species and wildlife poisons for libraries and databases worldwide.
- Collaborating with wildlife scientists to help disseminate results of their research to a broader audience.
- Assisting the public and law enforcement agencies in efforts to rescue wildlife that have been injured. In Oregon, we respond to emergency calls 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from wildlife rehabilitation organizations, law enforcement agencies and the public when wildlife is harmed or endangered by man's activities such as when a bear, cougar, coyote or bobcat is hit by a vehicle.
- Monitoring and challenging state and federal wildlife management policies that adversely affect predator species. We work with these agencies in their efforts to protect native predators. When necessary, we pursue litigation that requires agencies to follow laws and regulations established to protect native predators.
- Strengthening protection for native predators by providing our elected representatives with information and other support they need to enact laws that protect America's predators.
- Collaborating with researchers, other wildlife groups, governmental agencies, elected officials, and others to improve our ability to find solutions that protect predators.
- Working with international and local airport authorities to control birds of prey, deer, coyotes, and foxes without killing them.
- Helping the public, elected officials, agency personnel, ranchers and others understand that people and predators can peacefully co-exist.
History & Milestones
Began as Cascade Wildlife Rescue, Then Narrowed Focus
Established in 1990, Cascade Wildlife Rescue filled a critical need for predator rehabilitation and predator species protection. Between 1990 and 1994, the organization served two purposes. First, it provided quality rehabilitation for predators including bears, bobcats, cougars, coyotes, and foxes. Secondly, it was an active voice for predator species protection.
Over time finding suitable release sites for rehabilitated animals became increasingly difficult and public management policies were failing to protect predators and their habitat. The rampant use of predator control methods such as leg hold traps, poisons, snares, aerial gunning, bounties, and designated hunting seasons was profoundly impacting existing populations and undermining the second chance for rehabilitated animals. In 1995 the organization closed the rehabilitation center and embarked on a new path--focusing its resources on protecting predator species more broadly.
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