PROTECTING MOUNTAIN LIONS
#ENDLIONTRAPPING
Protect mountain lions from cruel, dangerous, and deadly traps.
Trapping is a cruel, archaic and dangerous activity that indiscriminately threatens wildlife, humans, and companion animals.
In Nevada, non-target mountain lions are frequently maimed, injured, or even killed by reckless trapping. And since trappers in Nevada only have to check their traps every 96 hours, the suffering and risk is increased.
Traps expose animals to psychological trauma, dehydration, excruciating pain, injury, self-amputation, depredation, and a slow death.
The public generally abhors trapping and less than 0.1% of Nevadans engage in trapping, yet it is still largely unregulated.
Nevada is home to the cruelest trap check window in the American West.
Animals trapped in Nevada are allowed to languish for up to 96 hours before a trapper is required to check their traps meaning an animal can be stuck suffering in a trap for 4 days with no food or water.
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