Month: February 2024

Snares are now banned in Wales, and Scotland is considering it too, though as yet there are no signs of consideration in England. But what are the actual effects on wildlife? And is there a place for snares in a rewilded world?

Grouse moors are not land for food production, purely for sport, and 1.4% of the entire land of Britain is given over to ecologically damaging practices such as burning peat and ‘predator control’.