Animal Welfare Institute

Simple Snares Exert Stranglehold on Wild Animal Populations

Snares are ubiquitous around the world and are emptying our forests, meadows, wetlands, savannas, jungles, grasslands, and other habitats of wildlife, with particularly devastating effects in Africa.
The Ecologist

Snares - a barbaric relic whose time is up

Snares are one of humankind's earliest inventions, writes Bill Oddie, once essential to our survival as hunters. But their modern use by gamekeepers seeking to protect game birds on shooting estates ...
International Business Times

Animal Traps Emerge As The Biggest Threat To Wildlife In South East Asia

Ghost forests in the Atlantic Coast are increasing in number at a very fast rate and it's bothering scientists. Kaboompics - Pexels Snares made of wire and rope have become the biggest threat to ...
Nature

The bits of wire that can devastate lion populations

Wire snares are widely used to poach African wild herbivores for meat — but the traps also catch enough lions and hyenas to cause serious declines in the population of both carnivores, according to ...
CNN

‘Barbaric’ snares are wiping out Southeast Asia’s wild animals

Across Southeast Asia, wild animals are being hunted out of existence to feed growing demand for bushmeat, according to conservationists. Thomas Gray, science director with conservation group Wildlife ...
CNN

‘Barbaric’ snares are wiping out Southeast Asia’s wild animals

Across Southeast Asia, wild animals are being hunted out of existence to feed growing demand for bushmeat, according to conservationists. Thomas Gray, science director with conservation group Wildlife ...