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Meant to Catch Spotted Lanternflies, Glue Traps Are a Horrifying Hazard for Birds

Meant to Catch Spotted Lanternflies, Glue Traps Are a Horrifying Hazard for Birds

April 14, 2023April 15, 2023 Supertrooper 2 Comments

Artist Sarah Valeri was on her way to an art studio open house in October when she stumbled across a grisly scene. Several trees lining the Brooklyn sidewalk were wrapped in strips of lime-green tape. Stuck to them were dead insects, feathers, and the carcasses of two birds. The horrifying centerpiece was a live Downy […]

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Petition: Tell the United States to Ban Inhumane Glue Traps

Petition: Tell the United States to Ban Inhumane Glue Traps

February 21, 2023February 17, 2023 Supertrooper 1 Comment

Glue traps are a common method of removing mice and other small animals from people’s homes and businesses. However, the nature of these traps leads to slow and agonizing deaths. Often animals will suffocate or starve to death and are left helpless and terrified the entire time they’re in the trap. The UK decided to […]

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England’s action to ban glue traps is a stirring victory for animal protection

England’s action to ban glue traps is a stirring victory for animal protection

May 31, 2022May 29, 2022 Supertrooper 1 Comment

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

Glue traps for rodents can also be deadly for birds and should be banned

April 24, 2022April 24, 2022 Supertrooper 2 Comments

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 […]

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Rodent glue traps should be banned, according to Chris Packham

Rodent glue traps should be banned, according to Chris Packham

February 5, 2022February 3, 2022 Supertrooper 2 Comments

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 […]

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French court outlaws glue-trap hunting of songbirds

French court outlaws glue-trap hunting of songbirds

July 9, 2021July 3, 2021 Supertrooper 2 Comments

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 […]

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POLL: Should hunting birds with glue traps be banned?

POLL: Should hunting birds with glue traps be banned?

November 30, 2020November 28, 2021 Supertrooper 8 Comments

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 […]

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