“In our view, there is no body-grip trap which does not cause unacceptable suffering.'
Imagine being a young badger going about your business in the countryside and all of a sudden you’re trapped in a snare.
Our Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs tells me snares, which are technically a wire or cable noose anchored somewhere to trap an animal or bird, cannot be ‘self-locking’. Landowner permission is required to put snares in place. The species also has a target on its back because of TB in cows, which will never be fixed as long as we keep cows on top of each other in sheds up and down the country.
“They can cause a great deal of pain and injury to an animal. In this instance the PSNI have been informed as badgers are protected by law in Northern Ireland under the Wildlife Order 1985 as amended by the Wildlife and Natural Environment Act 2011. It is a criminal offence to cause harm to these animals.
In January, the issue of snares came up in the House of Commons as MPs considered a petition signed by 102,000 people calling for a ban on the ‘cruel’ tools. “He also had bruised gums around his canine teeth, consistent with him having tried to bite a hard thin object before he died. His windpipe contained some stomach contents and also bloody, frothy mucous.”
"We have heard that on the Yorkshire moors, for example, where there were once 20 or 30 curlew and lapwing nesting, there is now just one. That is down to predation. These things have to be addressed.”
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