‘TRAPPED’: Undercover investigation exposes the shocking violence and reality of animal trapping in the U.S.

The evidence captured as part of the investigation is difficult to watch, but it is important. This inexcusable cruelty is meted out to millions of animals each year across the country.

BORN FREE USA: In 2021, Born Free USA, working in collaboration with Humane Society International (HSI) and Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), went undercover in the U.S. trapping industry. Our investigator attended the National Trappers Association Convention in Iowa in July 2021, then went on to attend a state-sponsored “Trappers Education Course,” provided in partnership between Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and Iowa Trappers Association, before going out on trap lines with three trappers. What our investigator saw, heard, and documented was harrowing.

This investigation, Trapped: Exposing the Violence of Animal Trapping in the U.S., has two objectives: to document the reality of trapping in the United States, where sentient life is treated and discarded with such casual disregard. And to accelerate measures at the federal, state, city, and local community levels to end trapping, an activity that shames us all, including ending the use of traps on the nation’s National Wildlife Refuges. SOURCE…

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