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.
For Immediate Release: 04/24/12
Born Free USA Offers Reward for Information in Brutal, Illegal Washington, DC, Trapping Case
Born Free USA, a national leader in animal welfare and wildlife conservation, is offering a $500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for setting an illegal leghold trap in the Cleveland Park area of Washington, DC, that resulted in a raccoon suffering tremendously and losing his life. The reward is being added to an existing $1,000 reward being offered by the Washington Humane Society (WHS) who uncovered this horrific case.
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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.
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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.
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