Oh dear.
In this week’s edition of Shooting Times, ‘the official weekly journal of BASC’, there’s a three-page article all about trapping, apparently ‘balancing tradition and modernity with legal traps and snares to control predatory vermin‘.
The article isn’t attributed to a specific author, but was presumably approved by a sub-editor and/or the managing editor, who somehow missed this embarrassing blunder:
For the avoidance of doubt, snaring was banned in Wales in 2023 and was the first country in the UK to do so. Scotland then followed in 2024, under the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Act.
Snaring is still legal in England, but not for much longer.
Raptor Persecution UK 
* Wales: first UK nation to ban snares (2023). * Scotland: passed the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill in March 2024, making snaring an offence. * England: last part of Great Britain to commit to a full ban, with the 2025 announcement marking the turning point.
‘non target species must be released unharmed’ I have never understood this, what species will not fight for its life to get out of the snare?