An Alberta trapper says California’s move to ban the sale of new fur products is an uninformed decision based on animal rights activists who don’t understand the environmental role played by trappers throughout North America.

“The narrative of the animal rights lobby is that trapping is inhumane and it’s torturing animals and threatening wildlife,” Bill Abercrombie, president of the Alberta Trappers Association, told CBC Radio’s Edmonton AM on Thursday.

“That really is not what trapping is about at all. It’s much more about conservation and sustainable use … [and] in modern times, the humaneness of it is not even an issue. It’s completely humane.”

Under a bill signed into law earlier this month, California will be the first state to ban the sale and manufacture of new fur…