| 7.10.03: BASC Told to Stop The Slaughter! |
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 Anti-snaring
activists from around the UK descended on the Wrexham headquarters
of the British Association of Shooting and Conservation (BASC)
to deliver a strong message: snaring and killing millions
of animals every year must stop.
Simon Wild of the National Anti-Snaring Campaign (NASC)
said: “We are targeting the BASC today because they
support the use of snares, yet hypocritically claim to
promote conservation. The fact that they have had to cover
themselves by producing an unenforceable Code of Practice
on Snaring, indicates just how rotten the existing law
really is.”
Along with the strong message, Mr Wild also delivered a copy
of Killing for Sport, a League Against Cruel Sports report
released today which details the indiscriminate and frequently
illegal ‘predator control’ regime by gamekeepers
on British shooting estates which results in the deaths
of many thousands of badgers, foxes, deer, dogs and other
animals which are indiscriminately and cruelly snared.
Mr Wild added: “Gamekeepers can now get away with
anything because police either refuse to enter private
land or ignore elementary evidence gathering practices,
thus ensuring no prosecution is possible.”
The NASC and the League will also be submitting a copy
of the report to the Home Office to support an NASC demand
for wildlife investigations to be looked at by an independent
police force in areas like the northeast where enforcement
of existing wildlife laws is notoriously lax.
A local League representative at the Wrexham demonstration
said: “It is indefensible for millions of birds and
mammals to be slaughtered every year because wealthy businessmen
and tourists are willing to pay through the nose to experience
a day or weekend of country shooting.”
More Details and Download the Report:
 League
Against Cruel Sports
National
Anti Snaring Campaign
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