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Encourage USFWS to Take Cruel Traps out of Its Toolkit on National Refuges

Dear John,

Our national wildlife refuges are intended to be truly special places: protected havens where wildlife can thrive and we can enjoy beautiful natural landscapes. Recently, the US Fish and Wildlife Service proposed a rule that would add crucial wildlife protections to refuges by limiting lethal management of predators. Under the proposal, predators on refuge lands could be killed only as a last resort, a significant improvement on current practices.

However, the proposal should go further by banning the use of body-gripping traps altogether as a predator management tool on refuge lands. These traps, which include leghold traps, body-crushing traps like Conibears, and neck snares, are immensely cruel and indiscriminate. No wild animal, pet, or human should have to fear stepping into a brutal body-gripping trap on a national wildlife refuge. As the USFWS makes other positive changes to its wildlife management practices, it should incorporate this long-overdue prohibition on such archaic devices.

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What You Can Do
No later than Monday, March 4, please submit a comment to the USFWS expressing support for the proposed rule and urging inclusion of a ban on body-gripping traps as a predator control method on national refuges ([link removed]).

Please be sure to share our action alert with family, friends, and co-workers, and encourage them to take action, too. As always, thank you very much for your help!

Sincerely,

Kate Dylewsky
Assistant Director
Government Affairs Program

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