A month for badgers

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The Wildlife Trust/Simon King e-petition to stop the Badger cull rather than expand it into new areas has a month to run and is around 18,000 signatures away from the magic 100,000. Now, as we know, 100,000 signatures does not mean that government will do anything – but, as we also know, it does mean that they have to sit up and take notice a little bit, and 100,000 signatures is one of the thresholds chosen by parliament to take notice of the populace. So it would be a shame not to go roaring past 100,000 signatures in the next month.

Looking at the map of signatures there is plenty of scope for getting to that 100,000 signatures. The signatures so far are very concentrated in the culling, killing, zones of southwest England and there is loads of scope to get more people, particularly Wildlife Trust supporters engaged over the next month. I hope that happens as it would be good to see a major wildlife NGO use this system to register a point.

Not easy though is it?  At this stage our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting had already passed 100,000 signatures. I think that does illustrate the high level of public support for government to deal with the ills of driven grouse shooting but I#d be delighted if this petition for badgers overtook us in the coming month.

 

 

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8 Replies to “A month for badgers”

  1. I suppose getting wildlife issues past the 100k threshold ought to indicate to Government that people, their constituents do care etc. Yes, Govt treat the subject matters with contempt & will do the same when we get King’s petition through the barrier? Ever an agnostic and I hope I’m wrong.

    Again, the WTs boast 800,000 members – so when their former President appeals where are they? Where is Juniper on the issue? Surely he could wake them up?

  2. Of Twitter reach:

    WTs 103k followers
    RSPB (Natures Voice) 250k followers
    Natural England 100k followers

    Mark Avery 25k followers
    Raptor persecution approaching 10k followers
    BAWC just over 6k followers

    Just wondering pound for metaphoric pound, who delivers the greater punch for conservation?

    Clue: see and please contribute to https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/BAWC01?utm_id=66&utm_term=bX2GMn2Pv

    In anticipation of more dislikes, perhaps from those who resist the collaborative delivery rather than placatory pc postulation?

  5. Still frustrates me that the RSPBs one million voices and Wildlife Trust members are clearly not signing in sufficient numbers. Where are they all?

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