The government is set to ban the use of some steel-jawed, leg-holding animal traps, limit the number of traps per person, and allow hunting of female deer during the hunting season until 2005, according to an Environment Agency report released Wednesday.
The agency specified the changes in a report to its wildlife advisory committee. Officials said the changes should take effect by the end of July.
Revisions to the Wildlife Preservation and Hunting Law will ban steel-jawed traps with an internal diameter greater than 12 cm. The government has been advising against the use of such traps for years, but the latest move will make them illegal.