Representative Bill Green of New York has introduced a refuge wildlife protection bill to protect wildlife and begin restoring refuges by removing sport hunting and commercial trapping, the most direct forms of assault on them.
However, since this very question - the question whether commercial trapping is morally justified - is open to serious debate, the anti-cruelty position, in its simple form, is question-begging at best, mistaken at worst.
He pointed, for example, to aboriginal support for the fur industry and commercial trapping as well as for the killing of wolves in the Yukon to save a caribou herd.
Until now, there has been relatively little evidence of commercial trappings in traditional board games like Monopoly.
Several zapovedniks have also been regarded as a breeding ground for other commercially valuable fur-bearing animals, such as sable and desman, allowing them to spread into neighboring unprotected areas to support commercial trapping.
Voters this year sided with animal advocates, and even some fair-minded sportsmen, over the rifle association in six states that decided statewide ballot initiatives addressing trophy hunting and commercial trapping.
The 1940 Bald Eagle Protection Act in the U.S., which protected the Bald Eagle and the Golden Eagle, prohibited commercial trapping and killing of the birds.
It also limited commercial trapping to four months, November through February, and to eight species: badger, bobcat, beaver, muskrat, raccoon, skunk, red fox and coyote.
For all its commercial trappings, the Rose Bowl will again be played on grass and under skies that shine with daylight at kickoff and fade to dusk at the final whistle.
In the early 1950s, the Naskapis made a partially successful effort to re-establish themselves at Fort McKenzie, where they had already lived between 1916 and 1948, and to return to an economy based substantially on hunting, fishing, and commercial trapping.