Standing up for Nature
We are approaching the end of the first week of this petition and it has already passed 47,000 signatures. This demonstrates how very angry many people are about government’s assault on one of our most loved native mammals. Inhumane Badger slaughter is not a vote winner. Four days ago there were only four constituencies with…
We are approaching the end of the fourth full day of this petition and it has already passed 37,000 signatures. I think this demonstrates how very angry many people are about government’s assault on one of our most loved native mammals. Two days ago there were only four constituencies with over 100 signatures and although…
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…
We’re still on the second day, in fact we are nowhere near 36 hours into this petition yet, and we are heading towards 20,000 signatures. Thanks to all who have signed. Every Westminster parliamentary constituency has recorded a signature; the last three were South Antrim, Wolverhampton South East and, as usual, Barking. The constituencies with…
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…
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…
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…
This looks like a good project to me, so I have supported it on their crowdfunder – click here.
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.
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…