A government-backed Private Members Bill received unanimous support for banning glue traps during its final reading in England's House of Lords this week.
Claire Bass, executive director of Humane Society International/UK, explained "Glue traps are crude devices that cause horrific suffering to millions of animals. It is immoral to subject small, sentient wildlife to being immobilized on these sticky boards, only to suffocate in the glue, die slowly of their injuries, or be ineptly killed by unprepared members of the public who resort to drowning or throwing them in the rubbish while still alive."