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COURTESY OF MARY KATHERINE RAY, A VOLUNTEER FOR TRAP FREE NEW MEXICO
New York Congresswoman Nita Lowey has reintroduced a bill that would prohibit body-gripping traps in the National Wildlife Refuge system.
Lowey, Democratic chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee, reintroduced the Refuge From Cruel Trapping Act Friday, that would ban from public land traps where animal endure hours or even days of pain. Lowey says that, each year, thousands of bobcats, otters, foxes, beavers and other wild animals are trapped in this manner across the nation’s refuges. She says more than 50 percent of the 566 refuges allow trapping. Steel-jaw leghold traps; conibear traps: and neck snares would be banned if the measure is enacted. Lowey says it’s time to restore the true meaning of “refuge” to the National Wildlife Refuge system
https://www.wamc.org/post/rep-lowey-reintroduces-bill-ban-traps-refuges
Exposing the Big Game 
Yay!
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Oh thank goodness! That poor coyote in the photo, looking up at the monster.
Not much of a refuge, is it, if trapping is allowed!!!! I knew some refuges allowed hunting, but not trapping.
Many do, believe it or not…
The corrupt Senate will likely not pass this much-needed bill, and even the House could be a problem, given some of the terrible Democrats as well. It would be wonderful, if it passed. The fact that so-called “refuges” have guns and traps is abominable.
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