Dominic Dyer is Policy Advisor for the Born Free Foundation, author of Badgered to Death ‘The People and Politics of the Badger Cull’ and was CEO of the Badger Trust from 2013 to 2020. Twitter: domdyer70 Boris, the badgers and the politics of culling Sir David King undermines the Randomised Badger Culling Trial Over the…
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Wild Justice Badger petition heads to 90,000 signatures
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Have a look at this petition please, and see if you can sign it. And then ask a friend to sign it too. See some of the details on the Wild Justice blog – click here.
Badger cull goes on and on
The Badger cull is not to be effectively banned in 2022, it is to be slightly scaled down it seems to me. You see what you think – click here. We’ve been here before where DEFRA say that culling Badgers is coming to an end and that was followed by a massive increase in culling!…
Badgers
Today Wild Justice is attempting to overturn the refusal of permission for judicial review of Natural England’s licensing of Badger culls. It’s a remote hearing and we’ll be watching by video-link (not available to the general public I’m afraid). The quickest way to hear what happened will be to sign up to the Wild Justice…
Tim Melling – Badger
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Tim writes: back in May, during lockdown, something had tipped over both of my heavy birdbaths during the night, so I bought a cheap infrared trail camera to see if I could discover the culprit. On the very first night I found I had both Fox and Badger visiting the garden, and they have continued…
An e-petition for Badgers
Wild Justice submitted an e-petition to the House of Commons Petitions Committee over 50 days ago – they are clearly very busy but quite why it took so long, I can’t say. But after a flurry of activity yesterday it was published around 09:30 this morning and we started promoting it around 10:30. By 12:30…
Dear Marian Spain, CEO of Natural England
Dear Marian I am writing to you to ask that you carry out an urgent, independent review of the functioning of Natural England’s wildlife licensing work. I believe that is clearly underperforming and in some very serious ways. Since the bits of your licensing system that I can see are only a few, and since…
Badger eradication
The Westminster government seems to have forgotten that it says that its aim is to eradicate bTB in cattle (which it is miles away from doing, and hardly seems a plausible aim by following the current loosely termed ‘strategy’) and is now fixated on eradicating badgers from large areas of England. Whereas the government announcement…
Last chance to support Cornwall Badger Project vaccination fundraiser
This crowdfunder closes at 20:05 this evening and I reckon its owners will be feeling a little despondent by the response so far. It seems an excellent and positive project which ought to be supported by those who like Badgers and that includes the farming community, I would have hoped. I’ve topped up my personal…
Cornwall Badger Project vaccination crowdfunder
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This looks like a good project to me, so I have supported it on their crowdfunder – click here.