California banned the sale of kangaroo leather years ago. Lawsuits contest its continued presence

It’s a battle that has raged in California since former Gov. Ronald Reagan first signed legislation banning the sale of kangaroo meat and leather in 1970, after years of unregulated killing.

According to the lawsuit, the plaintiffs have “suffered economic injury” because the retailers alleged “unfair business practices” have diverted resources from their core mission: “advocating for improved animal welfare, a more humane economy, and better protection laws — for kangaroos specifically, and for other animals.”

Dariush Adli, an attorney representing Soccer Wearhouse, said the company’s owners “say they were not aware of these items being illegal in California until a few months ago. They do not sell them anymore.” At the behest of the Australian government, Assemblyman Mike Gipson in 2015 took a bill he’d steered through the Assembly to regulate card club employees, stripped it and replaced its contents with language permanently allowing kangaroo parts to be imported and sold here.

The monumental workload of the state’s six-man Wildlife Trafficking Unit includes targeting restricted species that can carry pathogens that infect humans, as well as violations involving species facing extinction, such as the illegal trade of elephant ivory and rhinoceros horn, said Capt. Patrick Foy, a spokesman for the Department of Fish and Wildlife.

I’d suggest you do factual research. No where in Australia have kangaroo populations “rebounded”. Evidence in NSW Kangaroo Inquiry shows severe ongoing declines. Peddling FakeNews only discredits yourself & your media organisation. Kangaroos are also a Totemic Species.

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