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For Immediate Release, June 16, 2025

Contact:

Samantha Miller, (970) 531-6720, smiller@biologicaldiversity.org

Petition Seeks Halt to Sales of Fur From Colorado’s Wildlife

DENVER— The Center for Biological Diversity today filed a formal rulemaking petition urging Colorado Parks and Wildlife to prohibit the commercial sale of furs taken from the state’s wildlife.

In contrast to the protections given to the state’s other wildlife, the wildlife agency currently allows the for-profit sale of furs from all species classified as “furbearers,” which can be trapped, killed and sold in unlimited numbers. This includes beavers, ringtails, red foxes, pine martens and bobcats, as well as swift foxes, an imperiled species of special concern in the state.

“It’s time for Colorado to close the book on commercial wildlife markets. Auctioning off piles of pelts from native animals is a relic of an era that drove iconic species, like beavers and bison, to the brink,” said Samantha Miller, senior carnivore campaigner at the Center. “We’re asking Colorado to align with the core principles of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation that it otherwise upholds. Our state needs to modernize wildlife management to confront today’s biodiversity crisis.”

The North American Model is a set of principles that Colorado’s wildlife agency and many other wildlife agencies use to guide wildlife management and conservation. A core tenet is the prohibition of commercial sales of wildlife, as commercial sale and use not only led to declines in iconic North American animals, but also the extinction of species such as the passenger pigeon.

While the petition seeks to eliminate commercial markets for wildlife fur of Colorado species, it includes specific exemptions for hand-tied fishing flies crafted with incidental fur and for traditional Western felted hats, recognizing cultural craftsmanship and recreational use. It would not affect sales at department stores and other outlets that sell factory-farmed fur.

“Colorado Parks and Wildlife now stands at a pivotal crossroads, and the path to protecting our native animals is clear,” said Miller. “Eliminating the commercial sale of furbearer parts is a clear, necessary step to align state wildlife policy with both the agency’s mission and the principles of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation.”

The state agency will review the petition and then recommend to the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission whether it should be granted or denied. The commission is the ultimate decisionmaker on citizen rulemaking petitions.

More proof that liberalism is a disease.

As a fellow from Colorado explained it to me some years ago . . .

There are too few NATIVE COLORADO folks voting to control our destiny.
AND
That is before the invasion got so bad.