Utah: Don't Allow Nearly 500 Cougars to be Killed for Trophies
- por: Maria Roberts
- destinatário: Utah Governor Gary Herbert; Greg Sheehan, Director, UT Division of Wildlife Resources
The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources gave a huge gift to trophy hunters seeking to kill a cougar. They voted to allow an INCREASE in the permitted death-toll, ignoring the science presented by the conservation community which argued for a 25% decrease in past permits.
URGENT: We will be delivering this petition to the UDWR at their Sept. 1, 2016 meeting -- Add your voice and help us spread the word ASAP.
While the best science calls for less killings, they disregard the fact that many kittens will be left to starve because their mothers will have been killed, or that juvenile cougars will grow up without learning proper hunting behavior, which may actually increase livestock and pet predation by cougars.
The new cougar “management plan” locks in hunting levels that the Humane Society argues is nearly twice the sustainable rate.
Sign the petition and tell the Governor and the Director of the Division of Wildlife that you are opposed to ANY management that prioritizes killing big cats instead of protecting stable and sustainable wildlife populations!
Read more about the decision here.
We are very concerned that the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources just gave a huge gift to trophy hunters seeking to kill a cougar by voting to allow an increase in hunting permits, ignoring the science presented by the conservation community which argued for a 25% decrease in past permits.
While the best science calls for less killings, the DWR disregarded the fact that many kittens will be left to starve because their mothers will have been killed, or that juvenile cougars will grow up without learning proper hunting behavior, which may actually increase livestock and pet predation by cougars.
Additionally, your new cougar management plan locks in hunting levels that the Humane Society argues are nearly twice the sustainable rate.
Please send this plan back to the drawing board, and develop a cougar management plan that prioritizes stable and sustainable wildlife populations, not big-game trophies.
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