Coyote Bounty

In the winter of 1985, There was reports of wolf-like dogs coming ashore from the ice near the Port au Port Peninsula. The first confirmed coyote on the Island of Newfoundland was a pup hit by a car near Deer Lake in 1987. By the mid 1990s, coyotes were found throughout most of the Island. The winters of 2005-2006, there were 19 coyotes were captured and radio transmitters were put on them so they could be tracked. Some coyotes moved around a lot more then they thought. One moved 170 km from the place they tagged it, and another one moved 110 km from the place they tagged it. Today there is a bounty on coyotes so people could kill them. The reason why there is a bounty put on these coyotes is because they are killing off a lot of our moose and caribou and if we don't do anything about it the coyote will be over populated.

I totally agree with the bounty on these animals because if theres nothing done with them they will be over populated and then they will become a huge problem because they would be in the community's attacking people when they run out of resources in the forest.

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