Newsletter, Spring 2011 Published
Hot off the press, we’ve just sent out the latest newsletter. There’s a new look format and it’s available here for you to download. Newsletter, Spring 2011
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Are you ready? SETT…Go! Sue’s Run 4 Badgers
Posted on: March 16, 2011
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On 17 April 2011 I shall be running in the London Marathon. To reach the finish line I’ll have to run twice as far I’ve ever run before and that feels like a huge challenge right now! To make my effort worthwhile, I’m raising funds for the Badger Trust, a small charity that […]
DEADLY NEW YEAR FOR BADGERS?
The Badger Trust has formally stated its total opposition to culling badgers to control cattle tuberculosis and calls on two UK Governments to reconsider their proposed policies. The Coalition Government and the Welsh Assembly Government are to give their decisions in respect of England or Wales respectively during the early […]
Press Release:CYNICAL EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL
Badger Trust challenges exploitation of farmer’s plight. The Badger Trust exposes last week’s attempt [1] by the Farmers’ Union of Wales (FUW) to trade on sympathy for farms affected by bovine TB (bTB) as cynical emotional blackmail. The farming press has reported, in harrowing language, how a Welsh farmer had […]
How to Respond to the Government Consultation
WE NEED YOUR URGENT RESPONSES TO THE CONSULTATION BY 8TH DECEMBER PLEASE! You can respond to the consultation by following this step-by-step guide. Or by downloading the template here and sending it with your name and the date (this is very important) to; EMAIL: tbbc@defra.gsi.gov.uk POST: TBBC mailbox, c/o Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London, […]
Government Consultation on Badger Culling
WE NEED YOUR URGENT RESPONSES TO THE CONSULTATION BY 8TH DECEMBER PLEASE! I haven’t posted for a while, sometimes life (and health!) get in the way. But I am posting now, because this is so important. As you may know, the government is currently carrying out a consultation on culling […]
BBC ‘inaccurate reporting’ or bias?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-10637059 The above news article seems to focus on only one ground in the appeal, the fact that the WAG cull order was inappropriately worded to cover the whole of Wales. In fact, the cull order was quashed on ALL THREE grounds, not least that a maximum reduction of 9 […]
Weekend in Somerset, immersed in badgers!
Last weekend, four intrepid badger group members visited Secret World in Somerset, to learn how to handle badgers….. Saturday afternoon we all arrived from our various campsites more than a little bit excited. We were shown round the rescue centre, where there are hospital, and rehabilitation and finally pre-release pens […]
Appeal against Welsh cull successful!!
Posted on: July 13, 2010
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Campaigners were celebrating today as the Court of Appeal handed down judgment finding the proposed Welsh badger cull to be unlawful on all three grounds they raised on appeal. “Scientific evidence about the futility of killing badgers to control bovine TB remains exactly the same. Although some farmers may see […]