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Originally Posted by Gill Catton  Doesn't seem right to me, lamping can be very effective - even good old fashioned stalking or locating an earth and waiting. 'not having time' doesn't seem like a good enough reason to me for the reasons you illustrate....... |
lamping can be very effective - assuming you have a firearms licence. The wildlife site in question was heathland and bordered on both sides by dense forestry blocks - you cant lamp in forestry (only works in open land) and locating earths would be a very dodgy proposition too. - anyway a
Fox that is shot is just as dead as one which is snared - and the use of shotguns and light calibre rifles is more inhumane due to the high potential to maim - not everybody has a .338 full bore handy or the capability to use it.
under normal circumstances you could lamp on the heath - but this would grossly disturb the ground nesting birds they are aiming to protect - thus they were left with snaring as their only practical option. That said Although i dont support a blanket ban I would only want to see it used where there was a good reason - as above - and as a last resort. (incidentally they tried
Fox proof fencing at great expense- the foxes tunneled under it at depth - and idiots cut it with tin snips)