The 1981 act refers to “trap or snare” in section 11, “Prohibition of certain methods of killing or taking wild animals”, whereas the equivalent regulation in the habitats regulations refers to“traps which are non–selective according to their principle or their conditions of use”.The problem is that, although we can license the use of certain prohibited methods under the habitats regulations, the use of only the word “traps” in the regulations and the fact that the 1981 act appears to suggest that traps and snares are not the same thing mean that there is doubt about whether we can license the use of snares to take, in particular, mountain hares, which are an annex V...