Election season is in full swing and I wish to be certain you already know about an essential poll measure that voters like you’re deciding on. The measure is Proposition 127 and it’s asking voters to make the ethical resolution about whether or not or not we must always enable trophy looking and trapping of mountain lions, bobcats, and lynx.
Proper now, outfitters and hunters are allowed to hunt these animals utilizing packs of canines with GPS collars and even drones that chase down a mountain lion till it lastly retreats up right into a tree. As soon as the outfitters and hunters catch as much as the trapped and exhausted lion they shoot it out of the tree for a photograph and a wall mount used as a ornament.
Find out about trophy looking right here: WARNING GRAPHIC!
Equally bobcats are allowed to be trapped with stay traps in freezing chilly climate the place ultimately they’re bludgeoned to loss of life for his or her fur. These furs are sometimes exported to China the place markets exist. On prime of that, it solely prices about $35 to have the ability to seize and kill as many bobcats as an individual needs to, it’s limitless!
Find out about trapping right here: WARNING GRAPHIC!
Colorado voters have a file of ending barbaric and disrespectful practices by way of the poll. Voters accepted a really related measure in 1992, Modification 10, that banned the identical brutal apply of utilizing canines to hunt bears. It additionally prohibited spring hunts and using bait to hunt bears. Again then that measure handed with 70% of the vote!
The Endangered Species Coalition helps Prop 127. We expect its passage will deal with our wildlife with the respect and worth that’s deserved.
Please go to Cats Aren’t Trophies, the organizers of Prop 127 for extra info and be sure to vote on or earlier than November fifth!
Thank You,
Ryan Sedgeley
Southern Rockies Consultant
Endangered Species Coalition
