Beavers are not “nuisances” or “furbearers.” They are family-oriented, hard-working animals who build warm lodges for their young and create cool, wet refuges that salmon, wildlife, and people depend on in a warming world. Yet Washington still allows unlimited trapping and broad killing, with weak data and little regard for their lives. We are committed to respectful, reciprocal coexistence with beaver families, and to challenging policies that ignore their agency, wellbeing, and vital work.
Category Archives: The Ethical Animal
Barred owls are not aggressive invaders. They are beings who form lifelong bonds, duet with their partners, share food, and raise young in stable forest homes. Yet current federal policy would authorize the killing of nearly half a million of them over decades — a plan we oppose on ethical and scientific grounds. We are committed to protection and care, not killing or control of wild animals, and to demanding transparency, accountability, and humane stewardship.
To be a wolf is to live in a world structured by relationships: cooperation, communication, caregiving, and play.
Wolves’ close family ties are the foundation of their well-being, but they are also one of their greatest vulnerabilities. Wolves value not just their own lives but also those of their loved ones. When one of them disappears forever, the remaining family members mourn. When the family is torn apart, the survivors are changed forever.
