Litigation Archives - TrapFree New Mexico https://trapfreenm.org/category/litigation/ Coalition for safe, trap-free public lands Tue, 19 Sep 2017 17:03:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://trapfreenm.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/trap-free-nm-logo-150.jpg Litigation Archives - TrapFree New Mexico https://trapfreenm.org/category/litigation/ 32 32 124223743 Lawsuit aims to end commercial fur trapping in California https://trapfreenm.org/lawsuit-aims-end-commercial-fur-trapping-california/ Tue, 19 Sep 2017 16:54:21 +0000 https://trapfreenm.org/?p=2028 Conservation groups, aiming to end California’s dwindling fur trade, filed a lawsuit Wednesday that would force state wildlife authorities to raise license fees to levels required by law to cover the full costs of regulating the trapping, killing and skinning of wild animals. Read the story » We are very pleased to see this development! In New […]

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]]> Conservation groups, aiming to end California’s dwindling fur trade, filed a lawsuit Wednesday that would force state wildlife authorities to raise license fees to levels required by law to cover the full costs of regulating the trapping, killing and skinning of wild animals. Read the story »

We are very pleased to see this development! In New Mexico, there is no way that the 1700 trapping license buyers, most of whom are instate residents paying a mere $20, are adequate to fund the administration of trapping here either. Hunter dollars subsidize trapping in this state. Or alternatively, trapping is inadequately managed for lack of funding.

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]]> 2028 Judge: Challenge to cougar trapping may proceed https://trapfreenm.org/judge-challenge-cougar-trapping-may-proceed/ Mon, 23 Jan 2017 17:28:26 +0000 http://tfnm.aviandesign.net/?p=1072 A federal magistrate judge is allowing a lawsuit that asserts a state wildlife agency’s decision to open a cougar trapping season on public lands violates the Endangered Species Act to proceed. The cougar trapping season, which began Nov. 1 and ends March 31, is the first in nearly 50 years. Judge Lourdes A. Martinez issued […]

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]]> A federal magistrate judge is allowing a lawsuit that asserts a state wildlife agency’s decision to open a cougar trapping season on public lands violates the Endangered Species Act to proceed.

stopcougartrapping.orgThe cougar trapping season, which began Nov. 1 and ends March 31, is the first in nearly 50 years.

Judge Lourdes A. Martinez issued a ruling in favor of local wildlife advocates, The Humane Society of the United States and Animal Protection of New Mexico, which filed the lawsuit in federal court in New Mexico against New Mexico State Game Commissioners and the director of the state Department of Game and Fish.

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