Leg-hold traps & snares

Leg-hold traps & wire snares. Leg-hold traps were used for commercial rabbit hunting however as with the wire snares they are both outlawed. The snares particularly are still used by poachers and certain land owners who wish erradicate any predator which might prey on their valued wild rabbit populations.
BOTH FORMS OF TRAPS ARE INDESCRIMINATE AND POSE A REAL THREAT TO ENDANGERED SPECIES SUCH AS THE IBERIAN LYNX.
Sierra de Andújar Natural Park, Mediterranean woodland of Sierra Morena, north east Jaén Province, Andalusia. SPAIN

Mission: Iberian Lynx, May 2009
© Pete Oxford / Wild Wonders of Europe
Zaldumbide #506 y Toledo
La Floresta, Quito. ECUADOR
South America
Tel: 593-2-2226958
e-mail: pete@peteoxford.com
www.peteoxford.com

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Leg-hold traps & wire snares. Leg-hold traps were used for commercial rabbit hunting however as with the wire snares they are both outlawed. The snares particularly are still used by poachers and certain land owners who wish erradicate any predator which might prey on their valued wild rabbit populations.<br />
BOTH FORMS OF TRAPS ARE INDESCRIMINATE AND POSE A REAL THREAT TO ENDANGERED SPECIES SUCH AS THE IBERIAN LYNX.<br />
Sierra de Andújar Natural Park, Mediterranean woodland of Sierra Morena, north east Jaén Province, Andalusia. SPAIN<br />
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Mission: Iberian Lynx, May 2009<br />
© Pete Oxford / Wild Wonders of Europe<br />
Zaldumbide #506 y Toledo<br />
La Floresta, Quito. ECUADOR<br />
South America<br />
Tel: 593-2-2226958<br />
e-mail: pete@peteoxford.com<br />
www.peteoxford.com