I am pleased this Bill has passed . What’s needed now is the manpower recourses to ensure the law is enforced. It would be fair that the shooting industry pay a shooters tax to fund the resources required to ensure they abide by the law. Why should other members of the public fund this ? This should also apply to hunts and any other wild life criminals.
No matter how many Bills are passed, the gun-toting, trigger-happy hunters will still ruthlessly murder anything that flies or runs. Its time hunting was banned as these moronic pieces of human trash are slowly destroying ALL our wildlife and environment, just so they can get their 'fun, entertainment and bloodshed'
Glue traps should be banned altogether, ie: banned from being sold. The shooting ‘industry’ is utterly shameful, it should be closed down, its ’employees’ should look for real jobs
If there are any moves ahead that are going to "seriously tick off shooters" , then you can be absolutely reassured that they are going to seriously delight me !
GREAT TO HAVE A BAN ON SNARES, BUT HOW DO YOU ENFORCE THE LAW WHEN POLICE ARE NOT BOTHERED AND SNARES COULD BE PLACED ON PRIVATE LAND WHERE NO ONE SEES WHATS HAPPENING
Hope there is enough room in hell for them. You have to be extremely sick to want to go out killing animals. Wouldnt be so big if the they were in the Army and it was gun against gun ! They are not fit to be in possession of firearms. Gutless cowards. Real men do not have to this, as for the women they are big butch ugly nasty bitches.
Well done Scotland! It’s a long and challenging road to a more compassionate and equitable approach to wildlife in Scotland but it’s a journey well started which is more than can be said of the approach south of the border.
I fully appreciate the caveats in the article but I wonder sometimes what it is ‘reasonable’ to hope for given that there has always been a sizeable minority of the British public that enjoys killing animals ‘for fun’, alas. And I don’t think this will change. Perhaps then it is time to be ‘realistic’ and - as far as pheasant shooting is concerned which is a large part of the gamebird shooting activity now - limit our campaign to banning the release of pheasant poults in their millions each year. Go back to pheasant shooting ‘as it used to be’.
As for grouse shooting I think that if you banned muirburn and medicated grit on grouse moors it would die off natually.
Perhaps then the ‘shooting estates’ could genuinely start to work towards conservation instead of making silly claims in this direction where the only ‘real’ conservation done - apart from the odd curlew here and there - is of the shooting estates.
I am thrilled that Scotland has now banned barbaric snares, hunting, glue traps and other abhorrent "activities", which is far more than what England has so far done for animals! The next brilliant step for Scotland is to ban all grouse shooting next! I just hope this bill isn't going to act for licencing grouse shooting like the "2004 hunting act" did for enabling the smokescreen lie that is "trial hunting" to continue via loopholes but Scotland has now taken brilliant steps forward for animals, more than England and even Wales have so far (as even though Wales was the first county in the UK to ban snares, they still allow "trial hunting" whilst Scotland have now banned that and snares)!
Once upon a time farmers burned straw, but the terrible pollution it caused stopped it. They have to grow shorter stemmed wheat. The burning in Scotland can continue because it is too far away to affect enough people. Perhaps climate change activists should get involved.
Their use for anything other than invertebrates is being banned - but they are indiscriminate, so that is a gap in the legislation. Troll elsewhere . I am not trying to mislead anyone, but you ARE being obnoxious
No, glue traps are generally seen as the awful devices which trap mice, birds and reptiles so that they starve. Your ad hominem insults are really obnoxious , the bill has banned use of glue traps , did you miss that ? It seems you did.
Great work by the Scottish Greens to get this passed - the power of Greens in government!
Obviously there are still gaps, but unless and until we get a stronger Green presence in government, these types of compromises will still need to be made.
And at least we do have some Green presence in the Scottish government - we now need to make sure we get as close as possible to that for the UK as whole by getting Greens elected in the General Election.
No law will ever be effective without legal monitors being permitted on the land to regularly inspect and have more powers to prosecute.
I am pleased this Bill has passed . What’s needed now is the manpower recourses to ensure the law is enforced. It would be fair that the shooting industry pay a shooters tax to fund the resources required to ensure they abide by the law. Why should other members of the public fund this ? This should also apply to hunts and any other wild life criminals.
No matter how many Bills are passed, the gun-toting, trigger-happy hunters will still ruthlessly murder anything that flies or runs. Its time hunting was banned as these moronic pieces of human trash are slowly destroying ALL our wildlife and environment, just so they can get their 'fun, entertainment and bloodshed'
Glue traps should be banned altogether, ie: banned from being sold. The shooting ‘industry’ is utterly shameful, it should be closed down, its ’employees’ should look for real jobs
MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE FOR ANIMAL WELFARE .PEOPLE WHO KILL ANY ANIMAL SHOULD BE PUT IN PRISON FOR A VERY LONG TIME.
Load of piffle! Who is going to police it? Animal abuse will continue whilst we have corruption in the Police and Judiciary...
If there are any moves ahead that are going to "seriously tick off shooters" , then you can be absolutely reassured that they are going to seriously delight me !
KEITH, WE WANT TO IMPRISON PEOPLE WHO KILL/HUNTAND TORTURE ANIMALS
GREAT TO HAVE A BAN ON SNARES, BUT HOW DO YOU ENFORCE THE LAW WHEN POLICE ARE NOT BOTHERED AND SNARES COULD BE PLACED ON PRIVATE LAND WHERE NO ONE SEES WHATS HAPPENING
Hope there is enough room in hell for them. You have to be extremely sick to want to go out killing animals. Wouldnt be so big if the they were in the Army and it was gun against gun ! They are not fit to be in possession of firearms. Gutless cowards. Real men do not have to this, as for the women they are big butch ugly nasty bitches.
Well done Scotland! It’s a long and challenging road to a more compassionate and equitable approach to wildlife in Scotland but it’s a journey well started which is more than can be said of the approach south of the border.
I fully appreciate the caveats in the article but I wonder sometimes what it is ‘reasonable’ to hope for given that there has always been a sizeable minority of the British public that enjoys killing animals ‘for fun’, alas. And I don’t think this will change. Perhaps then it is time to be ‘realistic’ and - as far as pheasant shooting is concerned which is a large part of the gamebird shooting activity now - limit our campaign to banning the release of pheasant poults in their millions each year. Go back to pheasant shooting ‘as it used to be’.
As for grouse shooting I think that if you banned muirburn and medicated grit on grouse moors it would die off natually.
Perhaps then the ‘shooting estates’ could genuinely start to work towards conservation instead of making silly claims in this direction where the only ‘real’ conservation done - apart from the odd curlew here and there - is of the shooting estates.
I am thrilled that Scotland has now banned barbaric snares, hunting, glue traps and other abhorrent "activities", which is far more than what England has so far done for animals! The next brilliant step for Scotland is to ban all grouse shooting next! I just hope this bill isn't going to act for licencing grouse shooting like the "2004 hunting act" did for enabling the smokescreen lie that is "trial hunting" to continue via loopholes but Scotland has now taken brilliant steps forward for animals, more than England and even Wales have so far (as even though Wales was the first county in the UK to ban snares, they still allow "trial hunting" whilst Scotland have now banned that and snares)!
Once upon a time farmers burned straw, but the terrible pollution it caused stopped it. They have to grow shorter stemmed wheat. The burning in Scotland can continue because it is too far away to affect enough people. Perhaps climate change activists should get involved.
Their use for anything other than invertebrates is being banned - but they are indiscriminate, so that is a gap in the legislation. Troll elsewhere . I am not trying to mislead anyone, but you ARE being obnoxious
No, glue traps are generally seen as the awful devices which trap mice, birds and reptiles so that they starve. Your ad hominem insults are really obnoxious , the bill has banned use of glue traps , did you miss that ? It seems you did.
Great work by the Scottish Greens to get this passed - the power of Greens in government!
Obviously there are still gaps, but unless and until we get a stronger Green presence in government, these types of compromises will still need to be made.
And at least we do have some Green presence in the Scottish government - we now need to make sure we get as close as possible to that for the UK as whole by getting Greens elected in the General Election.