Help us pass a Citizen's Petition that is asking the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commissioners to ban the trapping and hunting of bobcats throughout Colorado.
Bobcats are mostly hunted for their fur, which is then sold to China and Russia to make high-end fashion items. The rest of the carcass is discarded. Due to Amendment 14, trappers in Colorado are only allowed to use box traps. When trappers catch bobcats, they usually strangle them with "choke poles" or kill them by drowning or standing on their chests to suffocate them. The reason they do this is because they don't want to get blood on their pelts, "there is less of a mess to clean up," and "the fur is worth more." Trappers typically don't shoot the bobcats because they don't want a hole in the fur or their traps to get damaged.
As wildlife advocates, we must organize and resist by raising our voices for the bobcats and for Colorado's rapidly diminishing wildlife communities. We need each and every one of you to help support this ban and one way to do that is to sign this Care2 petition illustrating just how many of us want our wildlife communties to be protected not destroyed.
Join with us and help change these outdated, cruel and inhumane practices during this urgent time when habitat fragmentation is occurring at disastrous rates.
What you can do to help stop the needless slaughter of bobcats in Colorado:
Write the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commissioners and ask them to SUPPORT the Citizen's Petition! If you live in Colorado, please write and SHOW UP at the May 9th at meeting in Grand Junction at the Courtyard Marriot, 765 Horizon Drive. The petition will be heard from 11am - 2:30pm. We need your presence!
Email for CPW Commissioners:
dnr_cpwcommission@state.colorado.us
Subject: Pass Citizen Petition To Prohibit Recreational and Commercial Trapping and Hunting of Bobcats
Body: Using your own words, ask the CPW Commission to stop hunting and trapping bobcats in Colorado
Sign this petition today and please sign up for our newsletters to get more information on how you can help protect Colorado's wildlife!
For Colorado's Bobcats!!
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Dear Bobcat Supporters! The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commissioners' will be hearing this petition on May 9th at the Courtyard Marriot, 765 Horizon Drive, Grand Junction, CO 81506, from 11:00am - 2:30 pm. WE NEED YOUR BODIES!!! CPW will be doing a number count of who is in favor of passing this petition and who wants the rule changing petition denied. We want to illustrate that many people want bobcats protected and not killed in Colorado. Please, try everything in your power to attend!
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ALL COLORADO RESIDENTS!
We are asking you to please write a letter to the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commissioners in SUPPORT of our proposed Citizen's Petition. This petition will be heard on May 9th or May 10th. Please watch for further updates, and like Prairie Protection Colorado on Facebook. You can email the commissioners at:
dnr_cpwcommission@state.co.us
Subject line: Pass Citizen Petition to Prohibit Recreational and Commercial Trapping and hunting of Bobcats
The bobcats need you!
