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Arizona Ban Hunting Wild Cats Initiative (2018)

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Arizona Ban Hunting Wild Cats Initiative
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Election date
November 6, 2018
Topic
Hunting and fishing
Status
Not on the ballot
Type
State statute		Origin
Citizens

The Arizona Ban Hunting Wild Cats Initiative was not on the ballot in Arizona as an initiated state statute on November 6, 2018.

The measure would have banned the hunting, shooting, trapping, snaring, netting, or capture of bobcats, mountain lions, jaguars, lynxes, and ocelots.

The measure would have made exceptions to the ban, including taking a wild cat: to protect a person from immediate bodily harm; by a law enforcement officer or licensed veterinarian; by someone with a scientific collecting license, wildlife rehabilitation license, or zoo license; through an activity authorized by federal law; to protect livestock.[1]

Text of measure

Full text

The full text of the measure is available here.

Support

Arizonans for Wildlife led the campaign in support of the initiative.[2] As of 2018, Kellye Pinkleton, the campaign's director, was the Humane Society’s Arizona State Director.[3]

Supporters

Officials

Organizations

  • Animal Advocates of Arizona[2]
  • Animal Defense League of Arizona
  • Animal Legal Defense Fund
  • Animals First Arizona
  • Arizona Animal Welfare League
  • Center for Biological Diversity
  • Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection
  • Compassion Over Killing
  • The Cougar Fund
  • Doris Day Animal League
  • Endangered Species Coalition
  • Footloose Montana
  • For All Animals
  • The Fund for Animals
  • Grand Canyon Wolf Recovery Project
  • The Hermitage Cat Shelter
  • Howling for Wolves
  • Humane Society of the United States
  • Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association
  • The Humane Voters of Arizona
  • Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust
  • International Fund for Animal Welfare
  • Jane Goodall Institute
  • Lost Our Home Pet Rescue
  • Lucky Dog Rescue
  • Mountain Lion Foundation
  • National Wolfwatcher Coalition
  • Natural Resources Defense Council
  • Nevada Wildlife Alliance
  • Oceanic Preservation Society
  • PACC911
  • Panthera
  • Poverty's Pets
  • Project Coyote
  • Salt River Wild Horse Management Group
  • Save Animals Facing Extinction
  • Sierra Club - Colorado Chapter
  • Sierra Club - Grand Canyon Chapter
  • Sierra Club - Rio Grande Chapter
  • SPEAK Tucson
  • Species Survival Network
  • Trap Free Montana Public Lands
  • Voices of Wildlife
  • Wildhorse Ranch Rescue, Inc.
  • Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah
  • 2DaRescue

Opposition

Jim Unmacht, executive director of Arizona Sportsmen for Wildlife Conservation, said initiative proponents were “trying to find a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.” He said his group is “going to mobilize and do what we can do to fight it.”[3]

Path to the ballot

See also: Laws governing the initiative process in Arizona

The initiative was filed on September 25, 2017, by the group Arizonans for Wildlife. The petition filing designated Kellye A. Pinkleton as chairperson and Cheryl Naumann as treasurer of the campaign. Supporters of the initiative were required to collect 150,642 valid signatures by July 5, 2018.[4]

In April 2018, Kitty Block, acting president of the Humane Society of the United States, said the initiative was being withdrawn. She said laws enacted in 2017 governing the initiative process made signature gathering difficult and that national issues demanded the group's attention.[5]

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Arizona Secretary of State, "Initiative Petition," September 22, 2017
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Arizonans for Wildlife, "Homepage," accessed October 12, 2017
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Arizona Republic, "Group wants to ban hunting of bobcats, other big cats in Arizona," September 26, 2017
  4. ↑ Arizona Secretary of State, "2018 Initiatives, Referendums & Recalls," accessed September 27, 2017
  5. ↑ Arizona Daily Sun, "Voters denied chance to outlaw trophy hunting," April 4, 2018
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