With the recent passage of a bill that gained unanimous support in the House of Lords, England has joined a handful of countries and a host of companies and institutions around the world that have banned glue traps. For mice and rats, the traps’ primary targets, who are so often excluded from society’s moral reckoning […]
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Glue traps for rodents can also be deadly for birds and should be banned
The RSPCA has renewed its campaign for a ban on “vicious” glue traps after two blue tits and a mouse were caught in one on a West London street and died slowly and painfully. The three small animals were discovered by members of the public in a residential street in Southall, captured in a rodent […]
Rodent glue traps should be banned, according to Chris Packham
The RSPCA has released pictures of a robin accidentally caught in a glue trap designed to catch rodents to highlight the danger they pose to wildlife at large – amid hopes the traps could soon be banned. The animal welfare charity and the wildlife presenter Chris Packham are calling for a ban arguing that they […]
French court outlaws glue-trap hunting of songbirds
France’s highest appeals court has ruled that the hunting of songbirds with glue traps is illegal, saying an exemption that had permitted the practice was in breach of European legislation. For generations, hunters mainly in the south of France have caught songbirds by coating branches of trees with glue, often using the singing of other […]
POLL: Should hunting birds with glue traps be banned?
French bird hunters won a legal victory to continue trapping wild birds with glue on Thursday [20 November] when a European magistrate found the practice acceptable on cultural grounds. An advocate general of the European Court of Justice, Europe’s highest legal body, issued a legal opinion approving French laws that permit the limited use of […]