Multi-Generational Dams Raided: Contractor Traps, Crushes, and Drowns Hundreds of Beavers Each Year

Mobile, Alabama’s City Council pays a private contractor $13,000 or more to slaughter hundreds of beavers annually, allegedly because the city experiences flooding of streets and historical sites. The contractor traps, drowns, and crushes 300-400 beavers to death, then stacks their lifeless bodies in wheelbarrows. These sick raids result in the traumatic abduction of multiple members of the beavers’ multi-generational family dams every year, yet the “nuisance” continues in dozens of locations across the city.

A real solution to the flooding of Mobile’s streets and historical sites would be to update the city’s infrastructure to address the infrastructure problems. But instead of making the smart decision, creating jobs, and improving the city permanently, decision-makers repeatedly use their power to kill wildlife, ironically trapping themselves in a never-ending merry-go-round of murder and community protest.

Please urge Mobile’s City Council and Mayor to fix flooding issues in kinder and more permanent ways while preserving Alabama’s beautiful and unique ecosystems.

1. Send a courteous, personal email to Mobile’s City Council urging them to invest in improving the city’s infrastructure rather than perpetually killing family members of multi-generational beaver dams every year. Let them know the endless cycle of cruelty and community objection will never end until a smart, lasting solution is implemented.

2. Leave polite comments on the city’s social media posts and photos.

3. Call Mayor Sandy Stimpson at (251) 208-7395 and his liaison Keysha Brown at (251) 208-7851. Ask that the Mayor put pressure on the council to find ethical, lasting solutions to the city’s flooding problem that do not include drowning and crushing animals to death.

Looking for talking points?

• Rather than killing hundreds of beavers and other animals every year, invest in improving the city’s infrastructure to curb the flooding of Mobile’s streets and historical sites.

• The contractor that Mobile’s City Council has repeatedly hired to kill beavers taunts the animals, prods them, and eventually either crushes or drowns them.

• Preserve Alabama’s unique ecosystems and permanently fix the city’s infrastructure problems by improving the city’s infrastructure, not by perpetually killing wildlife.

• The cycle of cruelty and community objection will never end until a smart, lasting solution is implemented.

Thank you for your compassion for animals.