Law protecting animals from traps on public lands upheld in court

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Animal advocates are celebrating a big win after a recent court of appeals ruling upheld a New ...
Animal Welfare Institute

Bill to Protect Animals from Cruel Traps, Reform USDA’s Wildlife Services Program

Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) welcomes the introduction of a new federal bill—spearheaded by Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)—that would restrict the use of body-gripping traps on ...
WTOC-TV

TRAPS: A local animal rescue group expands efforts to trap, advocate, and educate the community

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - A local volunteer-based organization known as TRAPS—short for ‘Trapping, Rescuing, Advocating, and Providing Support’ is working to ease overcrowded shelters by humanely ...
Animal Welfare Institute

While the World Moves On, US Still Caught in Its Traps

Although more than 85 countries have banned or heavily restricted the use of steel-jaw leghold traps, the United States—one of the world’s largest fur producing and consuming nations—continues to ...

Scotland bans ‘cruel’ glue traps in landmark animal welfare law

Scotland bans ‘cruel’ glue traps in landmark animal welfare law - Animal protection charity OneKind said the move will ‘spare ...
The Daily Gazette

OUR ANIMALS, OURSELVES: Ban traps, all of them

It only took one experience with a friend’s dog getting caught in a steel jaw trap that motivated me into the quest to ban traps. All of them! Not only snares, Conibear traps and steel jaw traps but ...