An animal welfare charity has welcomed government proposals to ban snares but says action should have been taken sooner.<\/p>\n
The Fox Project, in Pembury, Kent, has campaigned against snares for decades, describing the use of the traps as “unnecessary cruelty”.<\/p>\n
The proposed ban was included in Labour’s Animal Welfare Strategy published in December 2025, but was absent from last month’s King’s Speech, prompting questions over when it will be introduced.<\/p>\n
A ban largely reflects wider public opinion, but the Countryside Alliance said it was “frustrated” by the plans, arguing that so-called “humane cable restraints” were needed to help farmers protect livestock and wildlife.<\/p>\n
A snare is a thin wire noose used to catch and restrain animals, most commonly foxes.<\/p>\n
Self-locking snares, which continue tightening around an animal’s neck, are already illegal in England, while all types of snares have been banned in Scotland and Wales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An animal welfare charity has welcomed government proposals to ban snares but says action should have been taken…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-662651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}