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 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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Bobcats are generally found at lower elevations, like what is found around Avon and Edwards. The “ers.” Bobcats are smaller, and have ear tufts, facial ruffs, (fur that forms a bow tie) and a longer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.