BAN SNARES

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.

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.

LATEST NEWS

Cat owners and campaigner hit out as ‘Mackerel’ suffers serious injuries in snare trap in Malvern

A DESPERATE plea for people not to use animal traps has been issued by a town cat owner after his pet was trapped in a

Cat caught in snare in Wales, April 2019

A cat owner whose pet went missing for two days has spoken of her shock at finding the animal trapped in a wire snare normally

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

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.