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…
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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…
Badgers
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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
A record June for this blog
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With 119,378 pageviews and 28,301 readers this was a record June for this blog. In fact, in terms of the number of readers this is the most successful month for this blog since its high point in August 2016 when there was great interest in my epetition to ban driven grouse shooting as it approached…
7,500th blog post
This is the 7500th blog to appear on this site since April 2011, but it seems appropriate, because of the date, to go back to the 46th which was posted on 1 June 2011 after visiting the battleground of the Little Bighorn in Montana. Why is it appropriate? Because the battle of the Little Bighorn,…
Wild Hacking licensed by SNH for 2020 – last minute decision?
Residents in Moray, close to where captive-bred falcons have been wild-hacked over recent years (under licence from SNH last year) received a letter today (dated yesterday) from the falconers involved informing the residents that ‘falcon training’ would start from approximately late June. The residents had no warning of this from SNH. I followed this up…
Wild Hacking? Still no news.
Local residents have not yet been told whether SNH is going to license wild hacking of Gyr Falcons in Scotland this year. The report on last year’s events, which I have now read, admits the failings of the bird survey carried out last year (and highlighted on this blog back in December so it’s not…
SNH and wild hacking – still no news
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SNH still hasn’t produced the review of wild hacking that they promised ahead of finalising any licensing decision.
Wild hacking…?
SNH has so far failed to produce the review of wild hacking that they promised for last week – and ahead of finalising any licensing decision. I understand that there is activity around the hacking boxes in Moray – almost as if the licence applicants were expecting to get the go-ahead soon… Lockdown requirements in…
Do you have the energy?
A Guardian article has led me to find some new-to-me sources of information. But the story was about the fact that the UK is on a record run of coal-free power days – 56 days and counting. That is quite a transformation, but let’s not get too cocky as there are plenty of European countries…