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 […]
Lancashire Badger Group had a call on the Incidents Line yesterday morning from a lady reporting an injured badger in some woodland just beyond her back garden. Her husband had first seen the badger at around 7am, jumping around in tight circles seemingly unable to move very far. After going outside […]
Date 1st April 2011 The Badger Trust is appalled at the Government’s admission that some farmers have been swapping the identity of cattle so that more valuable animals– with TB– are illegally kept on farms. The Trust says that any plans to kill badgers in both England and Wales should […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]