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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

BOBCATS UNDER THREAT

I received this in my mail yesterday:

Have you heard of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)? It's an international treaty that 175 countries around the world have signed on to in an effort to protect threatened and endangered species. All of those countries are meeting next month to discuss whether or not they should increase or remove protections for certain animals and plants.

The United States has submitted a proposal for the upcoming CITES meeting that would remove international protection for bobcats, one of only two iconic American wild cat species. Removing CITES protection for these animals would not only decrease regulatory control of the trade in their fur, but it would also leave other similar spotted wild cats more vulnerable to illegal international trade.

I just signed a petition urging the U.S. delegation to withdraw this harmful proposal. Will you please help bobcats and other spotted wildcats, too? It will only take a minute!

To take action on this issue, click on the link below:
https://secure.humanesociety.org/site/Advocacy?s_oo=hwGlCJxs8ym-Mrjor605fQ..&id=4375

1 comment:

Retrieverman said...

Bobcats aren't endangered.

They are commercially trapped, but at least where I live, they are VERY strictly regulated. Every one that is trapped must be examined at a wildlife check station, and I think you're allowed to take only two or three per year.

In North America, we have bobcats and Canada lynxes. We also have cougars, jaguarundis, margays, ocelots, and actual jaguars (although they are currently extinct in the US.) Margays haven't been seen a very long time in the US either, but Mexico is part of North America.