Pressure on Defra over Stoat Trapping.
Fenn Traps likely to be lost.
The Agreement on International Humane Trapping Standards (AIHTS) was negotiated during the 1990s and finally signed by the UK in 1998. The EU has since ratified it, which provides a mechanism for requiring its adoption by member states. Since then, despite pressure to do so, DEFRA has failed to act on the stipulations of this agreement until now.
The consequences are that we are facing the loss of Fenn traps in July of next year because they are highly unlikely to pass the AIHTS. Traps which deliver blows to the head rath