Skip to content
Survival Skillset

Lesson 13 of 14

Trapping: the law, the ethics and the theory, and the small creatures

40 min

Every survival book has a chapter of traps: snares on rabbit runs, deadfalls with clever triggers, bird traps and spring poles. It makes trapping look like the natural next step after fishing. In the UK it is not. Almost every trap you will see in those chapters is illegal here for almost everyone, and some of them are illegal for everyone. Snares have now been banned outright in Wales and…

In this lesson

  • UK trapping, hunting and bird law
  • The ethics of trapping
  • Trapping theory
  • Snares (overview)
  • Deadfalls (overview)
  • Insects as food
  • Snails, slugs and worms
  • Common mistakes
  • Check yourself
  • Key points

The rest of this lesson is in the full course

Every module, practical and exam, self-paced and private, with a certificate at the end.

Original price was: £149.00.Current price is: £99.00.

Places on the full course open soon. Module 1 is free to try now.

Already have the course? Log in