Ban Snares in the UK | National Anti Snaring Campaign

The UK is one of only five European members that still allow animal snares to be used.
Each year cats and dogs are injured or killed by snares.
When caught in a snare, a rabbit will cry out in distress.
Snares cause badgers serious injuries.

Duke of Norfolk

The Duke of Norfolk is one of England’s largest landowners. His ancestral seat is Arundel Castle, Sussex where he heavily snares on the Norfolk Estate farms to prevent predation of wild game birds. He also has a home and shooting estate at Carlton Towers, Yorkshire – also littered with snares.

Here for the first time, we have captured a dog and a hare as they are caught in snares. Deer, badgers are also victims of indiscriminate snaring.

Investigations

Our investigators help expose acts of cruelty to animals at great personal risk.

Snare Advice

Found an injured or dead animal in a snare? It’s important to act immediately.

DEFRA Fail Wildlife

Defra ‘Independent Working Group on Snares’ stitch-up!

NASC Petition

Download the anti-snares petition and get your friends and family to sign.

LATEST NEWS

Help us to ban snares!

Please watch this important video about snares. Distressing but not graphic content. Snares are wire noose traps used by gamekeepers to trap foxes that might

The Code Compliant New Snare with Breakaway

This is a much-touted snare that was designed by the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust, and while it can be found much more often, the

Yorkshire Water Use of Fen Traps

Recently posters have appeared on behalf of Yorkshire water indicating that Fen Traps are in use on Haworth and Stanbury Moors, we encourage you to

One of the remaining snares found near the stink pit on Denton Moor

Gamekeeper found guilty of snaring badger

The protected creature had been lured to a ‘stink pit’ at High Denton Farm, near Ilkley.

Fenn type traps to be banned by 2020

The Agreement on International Humane Trapping Standards (AIHTS) is an attempt to enforce an international standard on humaneness for traps relating to fur bearing mammals. Regardless of leaving the EU, the UK government has still agreed to implement.