Kangaroo Leather Motorcycle Gloves

April 6, 2017

Question: I got my motorcycle gloves back in 2014-2015 and the palm area and parts of the digits incorporate kangaroo leather. I don’t intend to sell them but I’m OK to possess and wear them, right? (Anonymous)

Answer: Yes, you are fine as long as you do not have any intention of selling them. It is illegal to “import into this state for commercial purposes, to possess with intent to sell or to sell within the state, the dead body, or any part or product thereof, of a polar bear, leopard, ocelot, tiger, cheetah, jaguar, sable antelope, wolf (Canis lupus), zebra, whale, cobra, python, sea turtle, colobus monkey, kangaroo, vicuna, sea otter, free-roaming feral horse, dolphin or porpoise (Delphinidae), Spanish lynx or elephant” (Penal Code, section 653o).

It seems pretty far-fetched that anybody could tell that a dead horse was "free roaming" or not. And why are kangaroos on this list? They are not endangered and the meat is exported from Australia (but, apparently, not to California).

It seems pretty far-fetched that anybody could tell that a dead horse was "free roaming" or not. And why are kangaroos on this list? They are not endangered and the meat is exported from Australia (but, apparently, not to California).

Vicuna aren't endangered anymore.  Kangaroos are basically pests.  Whales, dolphins, porpoises, and sea otters are listed but seals, sea lions, and river otters are omitted.  There isn't much rhyme or reason to a lot of this list.

I think its just a trap for the unwary.

It seems pretty far-fetched that anybody could tell that a dead horse was "free roaming" or not. And why are kangaroos on this list? They are not endangered and the meat is exported from Australia (but, apparently, not to California).

Vicuna aren't endangered anymore.  Kangaroos are basically pests.  Whales, dolphins, porpoises, and sea otters are listed but seals, sea lions, and river otters are omitted.  There isn't much rhyme or reason to a lot of this list.

I think its just a trap for the unwary.

Wait.......... are you saying that a fish and wildlife department somewhere in America doesn't have rhyme  or reason......... ok rhyme I can agree with but there reasoning is simple "profitably" , I'd like to see some of the upper management pay figures... at risk of pudding off an educator "kinda like teachers saying there underpaid but won't show ya there check stubs"

It seems pretty far-fetched that anybody could tell that a dead horse was "free roaming" or not. And why are kangaroos on this list? They are not endangered and the meat is exported from Australia (but, apparently, not to California).

Vicuna aren't endangered anymore.  Kangaroos are basically pests.  Whales, dolphins, porpoises, and sea otters are listed but seals, sea lions, and river otters are omitted.  There isn't much rhyme or reason to a lot of this list.

I think its just a trap for the unwary.

There is a vibrant poaching market in Boliva for vicuna. Populations were in the 200,00 range 5 years ago and now 120,000 in last census. Elephants were once numerous too.

It seems pretty far-fetched that anybody could tell that a dead horse was "free roaming" or not. And why are kangaroos on this list? They are not endangered and the meat is exported from Australia (but, apparently, not to California).

Vicuna aren't endangered anymore.  Kangaroos are basically pests.  Whales, dolphins, porpoises, and sea otters are listed but seals, sea lions, and river otters are omitted.  There isn't much rhyme or reason to a lot of this list.

I think its just a trap for the unwary.

There is a vibrant poaching market in Boliva for vicuna. Populations were in the 200,00 range 5 years ago and now 120,000 in last census. Elephants were once numerous too.

Yes, but not in Bolivia.

It seems pretty far-fetched that anybody could tell that a dead horse was "free roaming" or not. And why are kangaroos on this list? They are not endangered and the meat is exported from Australia (but, apparently, not to California).

Vicuna aren't endangered anymore.  Kangaroos are basically pests.  Whales, dolphins, porpoises, and sea otters are listed but seals, sea lions, and river otters are omitted.  There isn't much rhyme or reason to a lot of this list.

I think its just a trap for the unwary.

There is a vibrant poaching market in Boliva for vicuna. Populations were in the 200,00 range 5 years ago and now 120,000 in last census. Elephants were once numerous too.

Yes, but not in Bolivia.

And I used to go fishing too.

In Bolivia?

A point that got missed here: CDFW(G) had nothing to do with this. It's in the California Penal Code for some idiot reason. That means the idiot legislators of about 40 years ago enacted that law. Kangaroos were temporarily removed from that list, but the removal recently expired. Some serious back-ass-wards logic in all this...

I have too skin moto gloves and soccer cleats.  They are the bomb.  Certain of the Roos are pests on par with rats, and lack the natural predators to keep their populations manageable.