Welcome
Welcome to BanCruelTraps.com. This site helps you to understand the cruel effect traps and trapping have on huge numbers of wild and domestic animals. It also contains many of the tools useful in starting, leading, or working within a successful campaign to reduce or end the trapping of animals.
For those visitors wishing to learn about trapping, visit About and Get the Facts to learn more about this issue and what Born Free USA united with API is doing to help. If you are ready to get active to ban cruel traps in your community, then please visit Take Action and sign up for our Action Alert Team to get the news as it happens. You can also use this site to get updated trapping statistics for your state and to order a range of resources and publications to help and inform you. Whatever you need to get informed or take action to end the cruel practice of trapping, Born Free USA united with API is here to help. Contact us for any information or advice you need.
State Ordered to Take New Action to Protect Lynx from Trappers
Minneapolis, MN — After issuing a critical ruling in March declaring the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (“DNR”) in violation of the Endangered Species Act for its authorization of trapping within lynx habitat, a Minneapolis federal court yesterday issued a ruling mandating:
- Restrictions on use of certain types of body-gripping traps and snare use in Lynx habitat;
- Prohibition on the use of fresh meat as bait;
- DNR must operate a telephone hotline during trapping season to receive reports of incidentally trapped lynx; and
- DNR must rehabilitate lynx injured from trapping.
Reporting Non-Target Trapping Incidents
It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of "non-target" animals fall victim to indiscriminate body-gripping traps each year in the U.S. alone. Submit a Report if you have experienced an incident of a companion or other non-target animal being trapped. We will use this information to make a difference and work to end cruel trapping in your community. See our Non-Target Trapping Incidents here.
Trapping Statistics
Find out how many animals of which species are trapped in your state. Our trapping statistics database, updated through 2003, is a useful tool for researchers, legislators and the media and the public, demonstrating the extent of the trapping problem.
The Fur Trade Today - 01/04/07
Family dog caught in trap
Elgin, IL — Shannon George was taking a Thanksgiving Day walk a week ago through the wetland area between Tyler Creek and the railroad tracks, off Lyle Avenue, when he saw a young boy in tears.
The Springfield man was out with his father-in-law, Elgin resident Tim Peshek, walking a dog when they met the boy, perhaps 10 years old, crying about his own dog, a Siberian husky.
