Wales votes to ban ‘cruel’ animal snares | Animals
Wales is on track to become the first UK nation to ban snare, after a vote in the Senedd backed criminalizing what campaigners say is a cruel and indiscriminate way to trap wild animals.
The wire traps are used by gamekeepers and farmers across the country in efforts to catch foxes, which would otherwise hunt lambs and gamebirds. But critics say the traps cause animals immense suffering, and that non-target species are regularly caught.
The Welsh government’s agricultural (Wales) bill, which looks likely to pass in the next few weeks, will make the use of snare in Wales an offense…
