Update: Urge Las Vegas Apartment Complex to End Pigeon Trapping!
Update (February 18, 2025): PETA has just confirmed that all of the traps have been removed! Thank you to all who spoke out for animals!
Original post: Centennial at 5th Apartments in Las Vegas, Nevada, has reportedly hired a contractor to deploy traps and remove pigeons who are simply trying to survive in the area. In addition to tearing wild families apart and leaving orphaned young to starve, such initiatives are traumatic for trapped animals, who experience immense panic and can succumb very quickly to exposure, stress, dehydration, or injuries sustained in frantic attempts to escape. Attacks upon trapped pigeons, through the wire, by birds of prey are also not uncommon!
Further, removing wildlife actually backfires because the resultant spike in the food supply accelerates breeding among survivors, while inevitable newcomers arrive for the still-available resources. PETA provided apartment management with humane pigeon-mitigation measures that are tried and true, and ask that trapping be halted, but we haven’t received any replies. Now it’s your turn to speak up!
