Bill Description:
Seeks to amend the Nevada Constitution by adding language that enshrines hunting, trapping, and fishing as a constitutional right for Nevada residents. The proposed language not only preserves the acts of hunting, trapping, and fishing, but also protects the use of any traditional methods of those activities.[teaserbreak]
Background:
Trapping is a barbaric, antiquated form of hunting. Animals caught in traps suffer immensely from their injuries, long periods of distress, and ultimately die an excruciating death. Many even gnaw off their own limbs in an effort to escape, often dying of a painful infection days later. Archaic killing methods for trapped animals – such as suffocation, drowning and poisoning – are widely used today. Read more on our trapping page.
Many other animals are injured by traps or die as “collateral damage,” including endangered species and family pets. (See our Trapping Incidents Database for more information.) Even one such tragedy is too many, and these types of incidents are sadly all too common.
Take Action:
Nevada residents, contact your state senator and urge him or her to oppose this legislation!
Read the full text and follow its progress here.