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 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 is here to help. Contact us for any information or advice you need.
Animals win big, thanks to Fur Free Fashion!
Sacramento, CA — Born Free USA is proud to announce the winners of “fffashion”, its inaugural fur-free fashion design competition. Independent designers were invited to enter their innovative fur-free fashion designs for cash prizes and the chance to be featured in a full-page ad in the September/October issue of E Magazine, a co-sponsor of the competition.
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.
