Tom Langton is a Badger expert and seasoned campaigner. His crowdfunder to challenge DEFRA on plans to extend the Badger cull deserves support – and I’ve put a few quid of my own in that direction.
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Shooting Badgers (3)
The information on Badger culls in the 2014 IEP report were collected by observers. These are people who go out with shooters and watch and record what happens. Now it seems fanciful to me to imagine that shooters behave in exactly the same way when they know someone is monitoring what happens as they do…
Shooting Badgers (2)
The National Farmers’ Union has a petition about food standards: I want the food I eat to be produced to world leading standards. Our Government should ensure that all food eaten in the UK – whether in our homes, schools, hospitals, restaurants or from shops – is produced in a way that matches the high standards…
Shooting Badgers (1)
In the past two years, more than 67,000 Badgers have been killed under a government programme which claims to have as its aim the eradication of bovine Tb in cattle. About two thirds of these Badgers are shot (free shooting, sometimes called controlled shooting) and one third are trapped and then shot. Free shooting is…
A good way to end the week
Wild Justice launched a crowdfunder at 2pm on Tuesday afternoon and have closed it this afternoon. £38,525 has been donated to the crowdfunding page on Crowdjustice and this morning an organisation offered £10,000 out of the blue. By 4pm Wild Justice had filled in some forms, signed a contract, sent an invoice and closed the…
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I’ve been thinking, talking and writing about Badgers today. The Wild Justice crowdfunder is going well – click here There is a Wild Justice blog with details of the PAP letter – click here
Incredible turn around on Badger cull.
The government will also begin an exit strategy from the intensive culling of badgers, while ensuring that wildlife control remains a tool that can be deployed where the epidemiological evidence supports it. As soon as possible, we intend to pilot badger vaccination in at least one area where the four-year cull cycle has concluded, with…
Guest blog – Licensed Badger Killing; Ethical Considerations by Alick Simmons
Alick Simmons is a veterinarian, naturalist and photographer. He lives in Somerset. He has written several guest blogs here: The Ethics of Animal Exploitation 1, 2, 3, 4 and UK Guardians of Animal Welfare. His Twitter handle: @alicksimmons Licensed badger killing is an integral part of the Government’s strategy to eradicate bovine tuberculosis (bTB) from…
Badgers and Turtle Doves
I had a great time at the Badger Trust conference on Saturday – and in talking to many delegates on Friday evening too. There were some old friends there, including some readers of this blog, and one person who had delivered lots of postcards in the Calder Valley promoting Chris Packham’s and Wild Justice’s e-petition….
The evidence-unbased Badger cull
I’m off to the Badger Trust Conference later today for tomorrow’s talks. I know very little about Badgers but it’s difficult not to get involved in what appears to be the start of wildlife-cleansing of a native species from large areas of the country. Wild Justice is looking at the Badger cull and we’ve had…