200,000 'cruel wire traps' in England cause 'immense suffering' to innocent animals

The League Against Cruel Sports is campaigning for a prohibition of snares successful England aft 1 was introduced successful Scotland this month, portion a prohibition successful Wales is besides successful the process of being passed

More than 200,000 "cruel ligament traps" prevarication hidden successful the English countryside, pass campaigners, causing "immense suffering and pain" to wildlife and pets.

Snares are typically acceptable to drawback foxes oregon rabbits, but often person unintended victims specified arsenic cats, dogs, badgers and adjacent otters.

The League Against Cruel Sports is campaigning for a prohibition successful England aft 1 was introduced successful Scotland yesterday, portion a prohibition successful Wales is besides successful the process of being passed.

The radical said they are utilized chiefly by the shooting manufacture to termination wildlife connected and astir ‘game’ vertebrate shoots to support artificially precocious stocks of grouse and non-native pheasants and reddish legged partridges simply truthful they tin beryllium shot.

They warned however Government figures amusement up to 200,000 of these traps prevarication hidden successful the English countryside astatine immoderate 1 time, acceptable to tighten astir the neck, torso oregon legs of their victims and causing immense suffering and symptom earlier the carnal is changeable oregon faces a lingering death.

Will Morton, caput of nationalist affairs astatine the League Against Cruel Sports, said: “Snares are cruel and indiscriminate traps which person present thankfully been outlawed by some the Scottish and Welsh governments.

“We welcomed the manifesto committedness by the Labour Party to amended carnal payment and prohibition snares and present look guardant to the Government announcing caller authorities to prohibition snares successful England arsenic a substance of priority.”

He added: “Consigning these brutal traps to the past books volition beryllium a immense measurement guardant for carnal payment and we impulse the Government to marque bully connected its promises.

“The immense bulk of the nationalist volition enactment moves to extremity the usage of snares and the symptom and suffering they inflict connected wildlife.”

A Defra spokesperson said: “This authorities was elected connected a mandate to present the astir ambitious plans to amended carnal payment successful a procreation - that is precisely what we volition do.

“We volition prohibition the usage of cruel snare traps that are truthful damaging to wildlife and pets.”