It's Time to End Trapping
on Our Public Lands
Dear
Guardian,
You may think that the use of cruel steel leg-hold
traps to capture wildlife and skin them for their fur is a thing of the past. Sadly,
it’s not.
Trapping is still occurring across much of the west, largely
on our public lands. This barbaric practice is not only terrible for the
animals it targets, but it also puts ‘non-target’ threatened species such as
lynx and wolverine and even our companion animals at risk. 
We are working to end the barbaric practice of trapping
across our public lands, but we can’t win without your support. Please make a
donation to our Trap Free Public Lands Fund today.
Earlier this year we resolved a lawsuit against the state of
Montana that creates new restrictions on trapping that will keep lynx and other
wildlife safer from traps. Our legal agreement also extends a ban on the
trapping of wolverines for another two years.
Prior to our lawsuit at least 15 beautiful and endangered
lynx were caught in traps in Montana since 2001, with some of them dying cruel, slow, painful deaths.
Our Montana victory is a major step to reining in cruel
trapping, but it isn’t enough. Support our Trap Free Public Lands Fund with a
gift of $5, $25, $100
or $250 to help us prohibit the barbaric practice of trapping on our
public lands.
We’re also in federal court in Idaho to restrict trapping and
ensure that no lynx suffer the awful death that being caught in a trap ensures.
And we’re ramping up to ban trapping in New Mexico by legislation and in Montana
by ballot initiative.
Whether through the court system, the ballot box, or the
halls of state legislatures, we will end trapping. I promise you. We’re going to deliver on this
goal. Your support ensures that we end the barbaric practice sooner.
Please contribute to our Trap Free Public Lands Fund today.
For the wild,
John Horning
Executive Director
WildEarth Guardians
jhorning@wildearthguardians.org
P.S. Give today to our Trap Free Public Lands Fund and
every dollar will be matched by someone who’s as outraged as I am by legal
public lands trapping and the horrors it creates for our wildlife.
