CONCORD, NH – After over six years of participation, the New Hampshire Animal Rights League (NHARL) was not invited back to this year’s Discover Wild New Hampshire Day, Saturday, April 20, following a decision by the event organizers at the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department.

The exclusion stemmed from a grievance filed by the New Hampshire Trappers Association (NHTA), a group that champions the use of leghold and other body-gripping traps for capturing animals, alleging that at last year’s event a NHARL-affiliated individual from Voices of Wildlife “administered immense criticism for both the activity of trapping and our members.”

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