The Perth-based Scottish Gamekeepers Association (SGA) has written to ministers recommending existing snares be banned in Scotland and replaced with new humane devices.
The gamekeeper representative body at Inveralmond, which has 5300 members, claims the new device allows an animal to break free and represents a “major step-change” in animal welfare.
Some organisations such as SSPCA have persistently campaigned to ban snares, which trained land managers, poultry keepers and pest controllers use to restrain foxes prior to them being “humanely” put down.
