BASC HANDBOOKS: PEST and PREDATOR CONTROL. Edited by Jeffrey Olstead and Glynn Evans.

2011 1st edition. 8vo (155 x 225mm). Pp120. Colour photographs, illustrations. Pictorial laminated boards, issued without a dust-wrapper.

Contains detailed guidance on shooting, snaring, trapping, the use of dogs and humane dispatch. The law governing pest species is covered in detail, particularly with regard to the general licences which are frequently misunderstood, occasionally leading to prosecution. Detailed instructions are provided on the effective and legal use of snares and traps with photographic sequences to show how they should be sited and set. This will be invaluable to those who enforce wildlife law and need to distinguish between legal and illegal methods of control. Chapters include: The law; Shooting foxes - ambush, high seat, lamping, driving; Fox bolting with terriers; Fox snaring; Trapping small ground predators; Trapping mink - live catch and tunnel trapping; Poisoning; grey squirrels - trapping and shooting; Corvid control - shooting and trapping; Non-lethal methods of control. Appendices cover the (legally binding) Terrier Code of Practice and list contacts and further reading. Up to date and useful.