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30.
November
2022.
Ban snares!

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Across the countryside and hidden from view, more than a million animals are trapped and killed by free-running snares. A snare is a thin wire noose which is set to catch certain animals by the leg or the neck. Foxes and rabbits, and even ‘non-target’ animals, such as cats, dogs and badgers, suffer excruciating injuries and death in these devices.

 

More than 100,000 people signed a government petition calling for a ban on free-running snares.  Celebrities, including Chris Packham, Peter Egan and Deborah Meaden, as well as animal welfare organisations, all support the campaign to ban snares.

 

Back in May 2021, the Government published its Action Plan for Animal Welfare, which promised to ‘launch a call for evidence on the use of snares’.  Eighteen months later, and we are still waiting for the call for evidence – and, whilst the government procrastinates, animals continue to suffer and die in snares.

 

Please take action to help ban snares by writing to your MP – and asking everyone you know to do likewise. The shortcut to write to your MP is: animalaid.org.uk/snares

 

 

Thank you.

 

Fiona Pereira

Campaign Manager, Animal Aid

 

The Old Chapel

Bradford Street

Tonbridge

TN9 1AW

 

01732 364546