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 Group Incidents Officer has been working with the group for many years. This is the person that takes the call when a badger has been run over, or when a suspicious incident is in progress or has occurred. It’s no easy job, made harder when you care so […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
From time to time I’m asked to explain the science behind my stance on the cull so I was very excited to find out that Rosie Woodroffe, a specialist on badger ecology, and the only ecologist on the ISG panel (the Independent Scientific Group responsible for advising the government on […]
Well it’s been an interesting, if slightly depressing day. Went out to check a sett at lunchtime, with one of our committee. A dedicated lady who has checked the setts on this site every day for months. This was her first return since a two week holiday. It had been […]
Following the recent news from the Court of Appeal on the WAG badger cull (see previous blog) my attention has turned to the the rest of the UK. The Conservative party had said that it intended to put a badger cull back on the table in their manifesto. Nick Herbert […]
I thought it was really important to blog this asap. We’ve just had a dog stuck in a badger sett. Terriers particularly are known to nip down the odd hole to see what they can find. Fortunately this episode ended 12 hours later when he came out of his own […]