We loathe snares, the cruel, indisriminate weapon of the shooting industry (see – Snares | Legally Binding) and we really like OneKind, the Scottish charity that works for “a world in which non-human animals are recognised as individuals and respected for their capacities and priorities, which are different to but not lesser than ours“. A new report brings both together, and it’s definitely One Kind that comes out best…

The Snarewatch Annual Report 2020 is available as a pdf, and consists of case studies of snare use in the UK, highlighting some of the worst snaring incidents reported to OneKind’s snare reporting tool, SnareWatch.org, in 2020. It’s difficult to read it and not ask how come these things are still allowed to be used in the countryside, why there isn’t proper legislation rather than a discredited ‘Code of Practice’, and who benefits from their use?

But in every case the answer is the same – the shooting industry, of course…

SnareWatch is an information-sharing and reporting facility about snaring in the UK run by OneKind. The web page dedicated to SnareWatch provides a huge amount of information on what to do if you find a snare, how to report them, and latest reports of their use. Please go to Snarewatch.org or click the image below: