Welcome
Welcome to BanCruelTraps.com. This site helps you to understand the cruel effect traps and trapping have on huge numbers of wild and domestic animals. It also contains many of the tools useful in starting, leading, or working within a successful campaign to reduce or end the trapping of animals.
For those visitors wishing to learn about trapping, visit About and Get the Facts to learn more about this issue and what Born Free USA united with API is doing to help. If you are ready to get active to ban cruel traps in your community, then please visit Take Action and sign up for our Action Alert Team to get the news as it happens. You can also use this site to get updated trapping statistics for your state and to order a range of resources and publications to help and inform you. Whatever you need to get informed or take action to end the cruel practice of trapping, Born Free USA united with API is here to help. Contact us for any information or advice you need.
Born Free USA’s Fourth Annual Fashion Competition for Eco-Friendly Designers Announced
Independent fashion designers are invited to enter their fur free fashions in the fourth annual Born Free USA fffashion competition for a chance to win prizes, significantly boost their fashion career, be featured in a national magazine, and help promote the ethical and environmental benefits of fur free fashion.
Reporting Non-Target Trapping Incidents
It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of "non-target" animals fall victim to indiscriminate body-gripping traps each year in the U.S. alone. Submit a Report if you have experienced an incident of a companion or other non-target animal being trapped. We will use this information to make a difference and work to end cruel trapping in your community. See our Non-Target Trapping Incidents here.
Trapping Statistics
Find out how many animals of which species are trapped in your state. Our trapping statistics database, updated through 2003, is a useful tool for researchers, legislators and the media and the public, demonstrating the extent of the trapping problem.
Own a Piece of Compassionate fffashion!
Starting Monday, Nov. 7, and through that week, Born Free USA will auction off some of the eco-friendly clothing, shoes and accessories donated for our fffashion L.A. show. This is an excellent opportunity to get great deals on stylish designer clothing and accessories and, at the same time, help Keep Wildlife in the Wild®. All proceeds will support Born Free USA's work to save the lives of fur-bearing animals everywhere. Check out what we will have up for bidding by visiting our auction site.
