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NASC Snare Report: Reality of Code of Practice

1 March 2006

Dr James Kirkwood (Chief Executive/Scientific Director of the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare) hang your head in shame! You chaired the Independent Snares Working Group…

Contempt for Viscount Cowdray’s snares ban

14 December 2005

NASC SPECIAL INVESTIGATION Animals are still suffering and dying in snares on land owned by Viscount Cowdray, one of Britain’s wealthiest men, despite a ban…

Defra’s new snares code of practice condemned

19 October 2005

DEFRA’s “Snares Working Group” has come up a code of practice that only shooting interests could welcome. This group, which comprised mainly of shooting interests,…

Special Investigation – Dunecht Estate, Scotland

7 August 2004

An investigation by the NASC took place this week at Dunecht Estate in Scotland owned by Hon Charles Pearson. Background One cat had returned in…

Blood on the Hon. Charles Pearson hands

7 July 2004

The NASC name the Hon Charles Pearson “as likely to have the most” snaring blood on his hands of any individual in the country. He…

Major landowner bans snares

21 January 2004

We can now report that our first major anti snaring protest has been abandoned after Sussex police have informed us that “all snares are to…

Anti-snare demo at BASC headquarters

7 October 2003

The National Anti Snaring Campaign held a demonstration outside the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (they mean conserving ‘gamebirds’ for shooting, not conservation in…

What the Countryside Alliance don’t want you to know

22 September 2002

It’s not hard to imagine why the Countryside Alliance would rather stay quiet than let us know what their policy on snaring is. After all…

60,000 call for snare ban

13 June 2002

MPs, Peers and Campaigners stand behind the National Anti Snaring Campaign banner shortly before presenting the 60,000 signature National Anti Snaring petition to 10 Downing…

NASC investigation badger release

12 April 2002

The badger in this slide show was snared in West Sussex on 27th July 2002, and was only found by sheer chance when a member…