While participants seek prey in the name of fundraising, animal rights advocates are training their sights on contests they see as senseless slaughters.
FILE — A squirrel climbs a fence in Central Park, May 2, 2020, in New York. New York could ban contests that involve killing coyotes, squirrels and some other wildlife species for cash prizes. , sometimes challenging hunters to bag the heaviest coyote or the heftiest bunch of squirrels to win a cash prize.
But the proposed ban illustrates the cultural chasm between its supporters and those who see the contests as an unfairly demonized part of rural life. Contests for coyotes or a wider range of wildlife already are prohibited in eight states, including California, Colorado and Arizona, according to the Humane Society. Massachusetts wildlife regulators noted public concerns, such as encouraging indiscriminate killing, when it prohibited hunting contests for certain predators and furbearers in 2019.
The competition raises as much as $12,000 to help fund youth programs and the local fire department, said John Van Etten, president of the Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs of Sullivan County.“I think the people that want to ban these contests don’t really understand them,” Van Etten said.
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