Victories: Wildlife

The Louisville Regional Airport Authority, which oversees Louisville International Airport and Bowman Field, confirmed that both airports were using glue traps but removed them after being contacted by PETA. The airports will not use them moving forward.

After being contacted by PETA, Port of Portland (POP)—which controls Hillsboro, Portland International, and Portland-Troutdale airports in Oregon—said that it likely wasn’t using glue traps but that it would double-check. While doing so, POP discovered that glue traps had just been laid out in an attempt to catch a chipmunk. Now aware that the traps … Read more »

The Hawaii Department of Transportation—which oversees 15 airports in the state—confirmed that it had been using glue traps but that they’d been removed. It won’t use them moving forward.

After meeting with PETA and learning that animals caught in glue traps’ adhesive may struggle for days, tearing flesh, breaking bones, and becoming increasingly entangled, The Home Depot agreed to prohibit the use of glue traps in all of its more than 2,200 stores nationwide.

The Tucson Airport Authority—which owns Tucson International Airport and Ryan Airfield—agreed to stop using glue traps.

After PETA asked officials with Hollywood Burbank Airport in California not to use glue traps, they reviewed the information that we had provided, conducted a months-long investigation of their facilities, and discussed the matter with their “pest”-control vendors. They no longer use glue traps in their facilities.

PETA recently contacted Norfolk International Airport in Virginia and asked it not to use glue traps. After learning about the traps, the airport said that its facilities staff and exterminator had collected the remaining ones and that this team will continue to look for glue traps as they perform their daily tasks. The airport’s executive … Read more »

After a PETA supporter told us that online retailer Natural Ginesis was selling glue traps, we asked the company to remove them. Within hours of learning about the anguish and torture endured by small animals ensnared in the glue, Natural Ginesis agreed to remove the traps and not sell them again.

After being contacted by PETA, the Indianapolis Airport Authority—which oversees six airports—agreed to remove glue traps from its properties and not use them again.

After being contacted by PETA, the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority admitted that it was using glue traps at its airport. We asked its staff to remove them, which they did, and the airport agreed not to use them again.

December 2014 PETA successfully helped persuade a prominent restaurant in Edmonton to stop using glue traps immediately and permanently.

December 2014 After PETA and other concerned groups weighed in with California wildlife authorities, cruel coyote, fox, and bobcat killing contests—in which the participant with the most kills wins cash and other prizes—were banned.

November 2014 We persuaded a Virginia community facility to make the compassionate decision to ditch glue traps.

October 2014 After being contacted by PETA, Alliance Residential Company—the ninth-largest apartment management company in the nation—confirmed that it will no longer use glue traps.

September 2014 After hearing from PETA, Jons International Marketplace, a regional grocery chain with 13 locations in Southern California, confirmed that it removed all glue traps from its shelves and committed to refusing to sell these vile devices in the future.