An Asian elephant who lost his foot to a snare trap when he was just a year old is able to walk, run and swim after being fitted with prosthetics. Chhouk, who is now 11 years old, had his foot ...

The Aldrich foot snare is the main method used by the state for trapping and tagging bears, about 150 to 200 in a given year, Larry Herrighty, director of the Division of Fish and Wildlife, told ...

Over a six-year period, 15 wolves were captured in Belisle foot snares. The traps were checked twice daily so animals were not held longer than 12 hours. In addition, during the last two years of the ...

Passively triggered snares, like culvert traps, require no concealment, but unlike culvert traps, are highly portable. The passively-triggered snare provides the same advantages as other snare designs ...

Several submissions described close encounters with traps or snares near trails and roadways, and one man said he was pulled off his motorbike after a snare caught his foot on a trail in the Mat-Su.

VERNON -- With this year's bear hunt on state lands called off, local animal rights advocates are taking aim at the use of snare traps in Wawayanda State Park for the state's bear-tagging program.

Traps that are legal are foot-hold traps, snares and body-gripping traps. Stoner said snares can refer to different mechanisms. “As a general term, people call them that,” Stoner said.