It's a severe defeat for the National Rifle Association. Fund wins massive lawsuit compelling federal government to speed the pace of listing more than 400 rare species on the federal endangered species list. Fund lawsuit stops the baiting of black bears on all national forests in Wyoming for one hunting season. Fund and other conservation groups pressure the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission into stopping the hunting of the rare Florida black bear. Voters approved Fund-backed ballot initiatives in two states, stopping the use of bait to hunt bears and the use of hounds to hunt bears and cougars in Oregon, and ending all commercial trapping on public lands in Arizona.
Fund stops canned hunts of exotic species on Texas game ranches.
Fund pressures Australian government to halt construction of a massive Eastern Tollway that would have decimated one of the last remaining pieces of koala habitat and one of the last remaining koala colonies in the country. Fund lawsuit stops a proposed bison sport hunt on a U.S. Army base in New Mexico. Fund sets up Urban Wildlife Hotline to provide information on the humane ways to solve nuisance wildlife problems. Fund reaches legal settlement with the Bureau of Land Management to prevent the agency from adopting wild horses to people who plan to sell the horses to slaughter. In response to a private pigeon shooting contest in Sarasota, Florida, Fund drafts an ordinance to ban pigeon shoots, which is passed unanimously by the Sarasota County Council.