Although the U.S. government lists the beautiful and elusive lynx as "threatened" in neighboring Colorado as well as 13 other states, they enjoy no federal protection in New Mexico. In fact, last year, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar refused to extend protection to the lynx, stating that he had "higher priorities." Any lynx who happens to wander across an imaginary border - from Colorado to New Mexico - is at instant risk for legal slaughter.

Please sign below to ask Secretary Salazar to include New Mexico in his list of lynx-friendly states. For more information, please visit:

http://www.wildearthguardians.org/library/paper.asp?nMode=1&nLibraryID=893 

http://bigcatnews.blogspot.com/2010/08/lynx-protected-in-co-but-shot-in-nm.html

http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S1704176.shtml

Thank you!