Please Protect Mother Mountain Lions
- da: Sinapu
Colorado has failed to protect mother mountain lions with dependent kittens.
Female lions are critical for mountain lion conservation, yet large numbers of female cats have been killed in Colorado over the past 10 years, as lion hunting has increased by nearly 400% since 1980. About 400 cats are hunted and killed annually in Colorado. Mountain lions reproduce slowly; a female will have about three kittens every other year, and only a few of these kittens will survive. Kittens are completely dependent on their mothers for nine months, and if their mothers are hunted and killed, the orphaned kittens will almost surely die from starvation.
Most mountain lion deaths in Colorado are due to sport hunting. Yet the deaths of female cougars are largely preventable through field identification of female cats by hunters and scientific management of lion populations by the Colorado Division of Wildlife and the Wildlife Commission. The Wildlife Commission has traditionally favored the interests of sport hunters and the livestock industry, so we need your voice today to speak out for wildlife conservation! Help us protect the cougars of Colorado!
Please sign this petition to urge the Colorado Wildlife Commission and the Division of Wildlife to protect female mountain lions. The Commission must set science-based, female-specific subquotas for each lion hunting unit to ensure that females, and thus their dependent kittens, are protected from over-hunting. Please sign today!
Female lions are critical for mountain lion conservation, yet large numbers of female cats have been killed in Colorado over the past 10 years, as lion hunting has increased by nearly 400% since 1980. About 400 cats are hunted and killed annually in Colorado. Mountain lions reproduce slowly; a female will have about three kittens every other year, and only a few of these kittens will survive. Kittens are completely dependent on their mothers for nine months, and if their mothers are hunted and killed, the orphaned kittens will almost surely die from starvation.
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Mountain lion mother with kittens. Gerald and Buff Corsi © California Academy of Sciences |
Please sign this petition to urge the Colorado Wildlife Commission and the Division of Wildlife to protect female mountain lions. The Commission must set science-based, female-specific subquotas for each lion hunting unit to ensure that females, and thus their dependent kittens, are protected from over-hunting. Please sign today!
Dear Commissioners,
I live in [your city], CO, and I am writing to request that the Colorado Wildlife Commission and the Division of Wildlife use scientific management to protect mountain lions from over-hunting, especially mother lions with dependent kittens.
Female cougars are the cornerstone of cougar conservation. They produce few kittens, spend significant time and energy raising their young, and kittens that are younger than nine months old will die of starvation if their mothers are hunted and killed. While it is possible for hunters to determine if a mountain lion is a female, it is difficult to know if that female is a mother. Therefore, it makes sense to protect female mountain lions.
Mountain lions are an important umbrella species and are a critical top carnivore for Colorado's wild places, and therefore need our protection. [Your personal comments here.]
The Colorado Division of Wildlife's data show that most mountain lion mortalities in Colorado result from sport hunter kills. We request that the Colorado Wildlife Commission require the Colorado Division of Wildlife to set nominal subquotas, in numbers supported by the scientific literature, for each of Colorado's cougar data analysis units in order to protect mothers and their dependent young.
Sincerely,
[Your name]
Firma la petizioneFirma la petizioneI live in [your city], CO, and I am writing to request that the Colorado Wildlife Commission and the Division of Wildlife use scientific management to protect mountain lions from over-hunting, especially mother lions with dependent kittens.
Female cougars are the cornerstone of cougar conservation. They produce few kittens, spend significant time and energy raising their young, and kittens that are younger than nine months old will die of starvation if their mothers are hunted and killed. While it is possible for hunters to determine if a mountain lion is a female, it is difficult to know if that female is a mother. Therefore, it makes sense to protect female mountain lions.
Mountain lions are an important umbrella species and are a critical top carnivore for Colorado's wild places, and therefore need our protection. [Your personal comments here.]
The Colorado Division of Wildlife's data show that most mountain lion mortalities in Colorado result from sport hunter kills. We request that the Colorado Wildlife Commission require the Colorado Division of Wildlife to set nominal subquotas, in numbers supported by the scientific literature, for each of Colorado's cougar data analysis units in order to protect mothers and their dependent young.
Sincerely,
[Your name]
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