This article comes from a farmer who owns a 48ha pasture farm in Glos. He comes from a local farming family and has kept his own cattle since the 1980’s in a TB ‘hot-spot’. The business has included a commercial beef and calf rearing unit but the herd has never […]
A group of Friends of A Rocha UK met in Chorley to share transport to the farm where the badger hide is situated. After parking in the farmyard, we walked up a small hill, over a short footbridge and then towards a hide. This was in a small, steep, wooded […]
Yesterday Caroline Spelman announced that she was ‘minded to allow a cull’ of badgers in two hotspot areas for bovine tb, most likely Devon and Gloucestershire. This will follow more consultation on the methods to be used (shooting of free running badgers), and whether or not they are considered to […]
15th July 2011. The Coalition Government must now abandon its proposal to kill badgers following this week’s powerful condemnation by the scientists most closely concerned with research into culling [1]. They were Lord Krebs, who designed the Randomised Badger Culling Trial, Prof John Bourne, chairman and members of the Independent […]
13th July 2011 REACTIVE badger culling doubles the risk of bTB breakdown on herds within one kilometre of the culled area. That’s the stark warning from the latest scientific research by Imperial College. Using rigorous analytical techniques the research [1], released today (July 13) underlines once again the dangers inherent in attempts […]
11th July 2011 SEVEN months after its consultation on badger culling was closed, the Government is still refusing to disclose even the barest results. Describing the secrecy as an affront to the tens of thousands of voters who took part, the Badger Trust said today: “This is the Government […]
1st July 2011 As two Governments in the UK debate whether to kill badgers as part of their programmes to eradicate bovine tuberculosis (bTB), another farmer has been convicted of switching ear tags to save an infected pedigree animal [1]. The Badger Trust repeats its demand made after the last […]
Wednesday 6th July 2011 A REPORT published on Monday by a panel of experts confirms that a badger cull would be a massively irresponsible gamble that could backfire on farmers and prove hugely unpopular with the public, says the Badger Trust. On the eve of the Cabinet’s expected decision on […]
Alan Seymour has provided the group with many beautiful photos of badgers over the years, one of which you will see in the header at the top of our blog page and newsletter. Here he shares one of his evenings with us. I arrived at the farm at 18.40 and […]
Tuesday 14th June 2011 Agriculture Minister James Paice has announced further delays to the proposed killing of badgers in England as part of the Coalition Government’s scheme to eradicate bovine TB. Meurig Raymond, Deputy President of the National Farmers’ Union said he was deeply frustrated. David Williams, chairman of the […]