Editor:
Accolades must go to the new Sechelt council for considering the issue of drafting a bylaw banning the use of all body- gripping traps in the District of Sechelt (Coast Reporter, March 30).
A committee of concerned citizens in our community has been working to achieve such a ban for the past year.
As a member of that committee, I was there at last Wednesday's committee of the whole meeting to hear Lesley Fox from the Association for the Protection of Fur-Bearing Animals make a compelling argument on our behalf for banning the use of leg-hold, Conibear and snare traps in Sechelt.
At the same time, Fox offered other options for humane wildlife management in our unique area. She also pointed out that other communities in our province and across Canada are banning body-gripping traps for the protection of their citizens, their pets and other animals within their boundaries and urged council to join them.
Coun. Doug Hockley received our enthusiastic and total support when he called body-gripping traps "an obscenity" and said they had no place in our District.
Let's hope our new council acts to pass a strong bylaw to get rid of these traps in our community.
Maureen Moorby
Davis Bay
