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Badger Trust promotes the conservation and welfare of badgers and the protection of their setts and habitats for the public benefit. We are the leading voice for badgers and represent and support around 60 local voluntary badger groups. Badger Trust provides expert advice on all badger issues and works closely with Government, the police and other conservation and welfare organisations.

Opportunity to comment on pilot trials in West Gloucestershire and West Somerset

BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS IN CATTLE

               AND BADGERS: 

                  Q AND A

            1ST JULY 2011

 PLEASE SIGN THE 38 DEGREES PETITION BELOW

 

http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/badgers-petition#petition

The Government has announced that the two pilot trials to test the efficacy and humaneness of the controlled (free shooting) of badgers will take place in West Gloucestershire and West Somerset, commencing in Autumn 2012.  See our Press Release "Badger Killing Trial is Rigged - and Useless" dated 19th January 2012.  Our badgers desperately need your help.  The 38 Degrees petition against the culling of badgers has been signed by 46,963 people as at 3rd February 2012.  Please sign the petition if you care about badgers and ask all your like-minded friends and colleagues to add their signatures.  Thank you for helping us. 

 

 

BADGER TRUST'S STAKEHOLDER CONSULTATION RESPONSE

Submitted 20-SEPT-2011

click here to read this robust and comprehensive document
 

 

PLEASE WRITE TO YOUR MP re - the potential culling of badgers.

 

The Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts has produced an excellent information pack on Badgers and Bovine TB. Click on this link to read and take action.

 

CLICK HERE

 

 

  Courtesy Wildlife Aid Foundation

 

 

     

HIGH PROFILE SUPPORT

Dr. Brian May and the Save-Me campaign have offered to support Badger Trust in the fight to prove that culling badgers will not eradicate bovine TB. Brian said "I am very honoured to join in this battle with you. On the side of what is right!".

 www.save-me.org.uk

Pembrokeshire against the Cull

  

 News
click to view/download this PDF file (369KB) Specialists like Devon farmer **** **** can identify diseased setts, but often lack academic qualifications deemed necessary to do the job – a great pity’
SUCH RURAL MYTHS as this are increasingly prevalent. The reality, says the Badger Trust, is that it is virtually impossible even for highly qualified scientists, let alone lay individuals, to detect infection in live, uncaged animals in the field.
click to view/download this PDF file (374KB) Badger Killing Trial is Rigged - and Useless
The Coalition Government says its culling trials will be science-led, but it has rigged the pilots from the start.
click to view/download this PDF file (191KB) Nonsense in the News
The Rt Hon. David Cameron, the Prime Minister said on BBC Countryfile [1]: “When you’ve got all this evidence that culling should be part of a balanced packet of measures do you just sweep it under the carpet and announce a further review or do you get on and make this work . . ''
click to view/download this PDF file (355KB) BADGER PERSECUTORS JAILED FOR BAITING Badger Trust joins other leading wildlife organisations in condemning cruelty in the countryside
As seven criminals were being sentenced at Scarborough for causing the “horrific and barbaric” deaths of two badgers ripped apart by dogs, the Badger Trust was one of 15 leading wildlife organisations who sent a joint statement to a national newspaper in response to their article printed on 3rd January
Events
Badger Trust AGM 2012
The Annual General Meeting will be held on Saturday 28th April 2012. The venue is the Staffordshire Wildlife Trust, the Wolseley Centre, Wolseley Bridge, Staffordshire, ST17 0WT, and will be hosted by Staffordshire Badger Conservation Group.
Badger Trust Conference 2012
This will take place from Friday 12th October to Sunday 14th October 2012 at a lovely rural location in Hampshire, within the beautiful New Forest. Further details will follow as soon as possible, but meanwhile, please put the dates in your diaries.
National Badger Day - 2012
National Badger Day for 2012 will be held on Saturday 6th October
Badger photographs courtesy of Laurie Campbell   Click here to visit his website
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