Tag: snares

Guest Post: Hunt Investigation Team | #SnareAware

Posted on November 16, 2020November 16, 2020 by Charlie

“In 2016, a majority of UK MPs voted to ban the manufacture, sale, possession and use of snares outright. The government ignored this and instead introduced an unregulated voluntary Code of Practice. Since then, a damning catalogue of breaches has been documented by HIT, NASC and other groups. The Code of Practice is demonstrably failing on multiple levels and snare users have consistently proven themselves incapable of self-regulation. An outright ban on snaring in the UK is needed…The situation is brought into sharp relief when we consider the huge numbers of snares in use in England and Wales – hundreds for each shooting estate and many more on farmland. These high numbers of unregulated snares in use inevitably lead to an unacceptably high rate of suffering.” Guest post, Hunt Investigation Team

Portrait of a fox cub on grouse moor

Posted on October 18, 2020October 18, 2020 by Charlie

A beautiful wild animal on an upland, photographed exploring the world it’s just been born in? No, yet another victim of grouse shooting. A tweet from the grassroots community network Moorland Monitors says it all really: another dead animal on a grouse moor, shot dead after being trapped in a snare. This cub was found by the Calder Valley Hunt Saboteurs on a snare site near Hebden Bridge. It will be just one of thousands of fox cubs killed this month to protect the grouse shooting industry’s profits.

Bob Berzins’ ‘Snared’ – Audio version: Chapter One

Posted on June 4, 2020June 4, 2020 by Charlie

This week we’ve posted twice about Bob Berzins’ new novel ‘Snared’. The first was a book review, the second a blog post by Bob himself. He asked what other ways there might be to help ‘Snared’ to reach a larger audience. What did we know about producing an audiobook for instance…? If you’ve someone who could read it, we could certainly help out with the editing, we said. I know just the man, he replied. And so a plan was hatched…

Guest Post: Bob Berzins | ‘Snared’ – why it matters

Posted on June 2, 2020June 4, 2020 by Charlie

“Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was photographed with a grouse shooting party in North Yorkshire on 19^th August 1960. The location was Barden Moor, owned by the Duke of Devonshire and this was a typical scene for the ruling classes. This was just a few months after I was born and it’s taken nearly the whole of my lifetime for us to understand what grouse shooting is all about.” Guest Post by Bob Berzins

Book Review: Bob Berzins | Snared

Posted on June 1, 2020November 3, 2020 by Charlie

The driven grouse industry will hate every line of ‘Snared’, but Bob Berzins knows what he is talking about, and his experiences have been condensed into this powerful story. Every paragraph, every wildlife crime, every environmental sacrilege, and every abuse of privilege and power rings true.

More pro-snare lobbying from the shooting lobbyists

Posted on May 28, 2020May 31, 2020 by Charlie

What happens if your concerns for animal welfare get the better of you and you close the loops of a huge number of snares – thinking, like most people, that they’re banned in the UK and that far from doing anything ‘wrong’ you’re only helping to save wildlife? You get an article where you’re lectured at by a shooting lobbyist, who blathers on about how cuddly snares are and trots out the usual guff about management, welfare standards, and pests.

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