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  • Snared Badger. The snare was attached to anchorage point. Cirigidion
  • Cat snared round leg. West Dean, West Sussex. 3 December 1997
  • This snared badger took refuge in an outside toilet of a Rotherfield Garage at Easebourne, Midhurst, West Sussex (7th August 1998).
  • Rare Albino badger required dozens of stitches after being caught in a snare at The Mardens, West Sussex in 1995. Treated at Alphapet Veterinary Clinic, Bognor Regis
  • Illegal(?) AB Snare
  • Badger died beside Peak Rail Line, Darleydale on 1 Sept 1994
  • Whenever you see a sign like this there will be snares about
  • Chris Peacock, North Riding Badger Group, with an entire badger family wiped out by snares, Boltby, near Thirsk, North Yorkshire. All dumped in a river to hide evidence. One had tongue severed and bottom jaw ripped off. Photo: Darlington Northern Echo. 16th April 1994
  • Badger discovered knocked down with a snare cut off, but still around its middle near Kingly Vale, Chichester, West Sussex. 11th Sept 1996
  • Fox snared on a wired fence against the code of practice
  • Snared rabbit in Wales. March 2004
  • Snared Badger on Atherfield Farm, Isle of Wight. Summer 1994
  • Snares set on a bridge caused this fox to die by hanging
  • Fox killed by snare across its stomach
  • Snared badger in Buckinghamshire. Bucks Badger Group
  • Badger caught by two AB snares. Swaledale, North Yorkshire
  • A badger snared in Shropshire
  • Badger found by the side of the road in June 2001, Egton Whitby. It had been seriously injured by a snare. Source: Rydale Badger Group
  • This badger was found alive at Lodsworth, West Sussex with a punctured windpipe, deep neck wound and scalped. Free-running snares were found nearby around a pheasant pen. A gamekeeper's discarded snares were found with several frayed and twisted snares, including animal flesh and badger hair in the strands. 24th Sept 1997.
  • This badger dragged the drag pole and snare hundreds of yards before being strangled on the Goodwood Estate, West Sussex on 13 May 1996. A post mortem showed a snaring injury from a year before which had fractured the sternebrae. Post mortem by Richard Edwards, MSc MA VetMB MRCVS. He stated: I believe that this animal underwent a considerable degree of suffering.
  • Anti snare campaigner, John Gill, was attacked in his own home following his one-man campaign to rid the Northumberland countryside of snares. 21st September, 2001
  • Badger snared on fence found by Essex Badger Group
  • Deer snared and killed by snare. Several snares around a pheasant pen nearby. They were illegal self-locking, and attached to flimsy poles. Kingly Vale, Sept 1996
  • This deer was discovered dead. It had dragged a snare and a pole for an unknown distance before snagging on a tree. Slindon, West Sussex - 27 May 1995
  • Badger with injury caused by self-locking snare. Cowthorpe

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