Help Coloradans save the Kit Fox!
Help Coloradans save the Kit Fox!
The Issue
Hello fellow Coloradans.
When I was younger, my mom, me and my brother went to one of my mom's friend's house in the mountains. They had a fox that would come around and I really wanted to see the fox, so I waited and waited... until a red fox came around! I threw it a tortilla and it left. That story is very special to me and that was the very first time I saw a fox in real life. This issue is very dear to me cause I love foxes and they're majestic agile creatures that need to be protected.
Kit Foxes have been affected since around the early 2000s and 1990s. These beauties live in our fellow southwestern states, California, Nevada, Texas and New Mexico. People are affecting these poor foxes because of residential development, and habitat loss in northern Colorado.
Follow-up work for these foxes suggested that the Kit Fox population had strongly declined and that the Foxes could be extirpated from the state. A census on the foxes hasn’t been made since 2000 which was 25 years ago.
A rise in population for grey wolves may have caused them to disappear. The CDOW closed hunting and Kit fox trapping in Colorado in 1994. Kit Fox were tracked and researchers found that their dens and home range was closely clustered, of the 47 Kit Foxes tracked during a four year period, only 4 were to be alive at the end of the study. 22 were reported to be dead. No marked pups survived over three years old and 89 percent were marked dead.
Kit Foxes are threatened by habitat loss, Coyotes, predators, residential development and off- roading vehicles. Hunters often mistake them for Coyotes, and they trap them and kill them by mistake. Poisoning is also an issue since Kit Foxes may move to grass where sheep graze and that grass oftentimes is dangerous since there’s pesticides for coyote control. The entire population of Kit Foxes is in danger of going entirely extinct in our state. Respectively, they are native and we need to act now. The Coloradan government and wildlife officials need to have another census and protected land to keep these precious foxes in our state. I may only be 13 but this issue is dear to me.
Please hear me out and help our fellow state from losing a native animal.
Thank you.
(Source: Colorado Parks and Wildlife Kit Fox; Vulpe Macrotis)
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The Issue
Hello fellow Coloradans.
When I was younger, my mom, me and my brother went to one of my mom's friend's house in the mountains. They had a fox that would come around and I really wanted to see the fox, so I waited and waited... until a red fox came around! I threw it a tortilla and it left. That story is very special to me and that was the very first time I saw a fox in real life. This issue is very dear to me cause I love foxes and they're majestic agile creatures that need to be protected.
Kit Foxes have been affected since around the early 2000s and 1990s. These beauties live in our fellow southwestern states, California, Nevada, Texas and New Mexico. People are affecting these poor foxes because of residential development, and habitat loss in northern Colorado.
Follow-up work for these foxes suggested that the Kit Fox population had strongly declined and that the Foxes could be extirpated from the state. A census on the foxes hasn’t been made since 2000 which was 25 years ago.
A rise in population for grey wolves may have caused them to disappear. The CDOW closed hunting and Kit fox trapping in Colorado in 1994. Kit Fox were tracked and researchers found that their dens and home range was closely clustered, of the 47 Kit Foxes tracked during a four year period, only 4 were to be alive at the end of the study. 22 were reported to be dead. No marked pups survived over three years old and 89 percent were marked dead.
Kit Foxes are threatened by habitat loss, Coyotes, predators, residential development and off- roading vehicles. Hunters often mistake them for Coyotes, and they trap them and kill them by mistake. Poisoning is also an issue since Kit Foxes may move to grass where sheep graze and that grass oftentimes is dangerous since there’s pesticides for coyote control. The entire population of Kit Foxes is in danger of going entirely extinct in our state. Respectively, they are native and we need to act now. The Coloradan government and wildlife officials need to have another census and protected land to keep these precious foxes in our state. I may only be 13 but this issue is dear to me.
Please hear me out and help our fellow state from losing a native animal.
Thank you.
(Source: Colorado Parks and Wildlife Kit Fox; Vulpe Macrotis)
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Petition created on January 23, 2024