Date 31st March 2011 Attempts by the NFU’s southwest regional director Melanie Hall to justify badger culling have been comprehensively dismissed by the Badger Trust as ill-founded scaremongering. Responding to an article written by Ms Hall in the Western Morning News on 24th March 2011, the Trust says, in a letter to […]
22 – Mar-2011 The Welsh Assembly Government will debate tomorrow (Wednesday March 23) whether to carry out its plan to kill badgers as new figures show big reductions in cattle TB. The area designated for the killing is in Dyfed, where the cattle toll has fallen by 45 percent over […]
22 – Mar- 2011 The Welsh Assembly Government will debate tomorrow (Wednesday March 23) whether to carry out its plan to kill badgers as new figures show big reductions in cattle TB. The area designated for the killing is in Dyfed, where the cattle toll has fallen by 45 percent […]
Date 24th March 2011 The Badger Trust is deeply disappointed that The Badger (Control Area) (Wales) Order 2011 is not to be annulled. A motion tabled by four Members of the Welsh Assembly Government failed yesterday (March 23). The Trust is taking legal advice about the measures proposed and the reasons […]
The Badger Trust welcomes the news that Peter Black AM has laid a motion before the Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) calling for the annulment of the Badger (Control Area) (Wales) Order 2011. It will be debated and a vote taken next Wednesday (23rd March). The Trust emphasises that Welsh voters have only a very […]
28th February 2011 The presenter of the BBC television programme Countryfile, Adam Henson, a farmer, used his own herd for an item about bovine tuberculosis (bTB) on Sunday February 27. He showed himself unaware of recent reductions in the levels of infection and repeatedly implied, wrongly, that the disease was intractable. This […]
23rd February 2011 The Badger Trust is appalled that a farm in Cornwall, an area which has suffered from bovine tuberculosis for decades, not only moved cattle while under TB restrictions but also entered a major pedigree cattle show in Warwickshire. Fifty-eight passports for dead cattle were found on the […]
8th February 2011 The Badger Trust says the Coalition Government and the Welsh Assembly Government must abandon any ideas of killing badgers because recent figures show steep falls in bovine tuberculosis (bTB) without any culling. The governments and the beef and dairy industries are now even less justified in their […]
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 […]
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 […]