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Kangaroos face imminent danger if a California bill becomes law. Senate Bill 880 would legalize kangaroo skin sales in California, where they have been banned since 1970. The California State Senate has just passed the bill, which is now up for a vote in the California State Assembly Committee on Water, Parks and Wildlife. If the Assembly Committee passes the bill, it will go to the full Assembly, and from there it will take only the governor's signature to overturn the decades-long ban on the sale of kangaroo skins.
Millions of kangaroos are shot for their skins every year in Australia. According to Australian government code, orphaned joeys and wounded adults should be killed by being decapitated or hit sharply on the head "to destroy the brain." When hunters kill a mother kangaroo with a baby in her pouch, the baby is often yanked from the mother's lifeless body and stomped to death or left to writhe in agony.
Allowing kangaroo skins to be sold in California would threaten the species' existence. Australian government statistics show that kangaroo populations have been dwindling and are now the lowest they have been in more than a decade. Since hunters usually kill kangaroos at night, it is virtually impossible for them to check that the kangaroos aren't a protected species before shooting them. An increased demand for any kangaroo skin will further jeopardize Australia's kangaroo populations.
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The Assembly Committee on Water, Parks and Wildlife will be voting on SB 880 soon. Kangaroos urgently need your voice. Please help stop SB 880 and protect kangaroos by signing the following petition: Let the California Chamber of Commerce know that you oppose SB 880 and will leave California out of your future travel plans if this bill is passed. Kangaroos—like all animals—are not throw rugs, purses, jackets, or shoes, and they deserve to be protected from cruelty and unnecessary death.
Please show your opposition to SB 880 by signing the petition below.
After you sign the petition, please take the time to call the California Chamber of Commerce at 916-444-6670 and express your opposition to SB 880.
