Brinsley Animal Rescue says it receives four or five calls a week about animals trapped by fishing wire but only manages to save one in 20 A wildlife rescuer has said a heron which was found caught in ...

With more and more crews releasing fish without sticking them with either a tag or a gaff, the finely honed skill of wiring big fish is slowly fading away. The increase in the use of wind-on leaders — ...

A heron has been released back into the wild after being freed from a tangle of fishing wire. Brinsley Animal Rescue in Nottinghamshire said the bird had "beaten the odds" after it was found trapped ...