Bobcat trapping is the extreme — selling fur for luxury items. It’s sickening.” From December through February, Colorado bobcat hunters and trappers may kill as many bobcats as they please.

RENO, Nev. - Bobcat fur coats have become a hot item among the fashion-conscious in Russia and China, leading to a big jump in prices and exports for the soft, spotted pelts.

Bobcat populations plummeted during the early 20th century because of the popularity of their fur. Since then, successful conservation measures led to the IUCN listing them as a species of least ...

Unlike the rest of modern wildlife management, killing bobcats is unregulated, driven not by science but by fur prices. We’re stuck in the 19th century when market hunters, for example, shot boatloads ...

Colorado bobcat An estimated 2,000 Colorado bobcats are trapped for fur to sell on the foreign market every year As a member of Colorado’s big game hunting community, I own the responsibility to ...

A bobcat, with its characteristic reddish fur and black markings, trots across a snow-covered field in central Oregon, in the ...

Bobcats have beautiful fur coats and were extensively hunted for their pelts, but many states have now prohibited that. As entirely carnivorous animals, ...

Unlike the lynx that only have black fur at the tip of their tail, bobcats have both black and white fur at the tip of their tails. The latter is thought to help kittens who fall too far behind ...

By Ted Williams Unlike the rest of modern wildlife management, killing bobcats is unregulated, driven not by science but by fur prices. We’re stuck in the 19 th Century when market hunters, for ...

The bobcat (Lynx rufus) is the most common wildcat in North America. The IUCN estimates the bobcat population to be between 2.3 million and 3.5 million. They are found in Mexico, five Canadian ...

Unlike the rest of modern wildlife management, killing bobcats is unregulated, driven not by science but by fur prices. We’re stuck in the 19th century when market hunters, for example, shot ...

Unlike the rest of modern wildlife management, killing bobcats is unregulated, driven not by science but by fur prices. We’re stuck in the 19 th Century when market hunters, for example, shot ...