Info on how to help stop the badger culls

Updated briefing note for 2016 ###################### Badger Cull 2016 (Gloucestershire) Briefing, Parts 1, 2 & 3 This is a working document which is updated regularly. The cull is about to start very soon and be rolled out to areas with contiguous boundaries to the Gloucestershire cull zone. People and resources are needed in ALL zones …

Wounded Badger Patrol Cheshire | Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/wbpcheshire If anyone in Cheshire/North Wales/Derbyshire/Staffs/North West can help with locations of badger setts or can help looking for them please contact them via Twitter: @wbpcheshire or email: wbpcheshire Many thanks North West Hunt Saboteurs Association 07960 038230 http://www.nwhsa.org.uk info@nwhsa.org.uk Blog - https://nwhsa.wordpress.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ManchesterHuntSabs Direct Action Against All Forms of bloodsports

Devon County Council rejects badger cull ban

A bid to ban badger culling on council-owned land in Devon has been thrown out by members. Labour councillor Jill Owen had submitted a motion to the full council that it should “prohibit badger culling on its land, where it has the legal jurisdiction so to do, and asks that more research be undertaken by …

OPINION: £7.3m badger cull is most disastrous, expensive wildlife cull on record

By Dominic Dyer, Care for the Wild International In between taking calls from senior editors of national newspapers asking me if I could confirm reports that Environment Minister Owen Paterson was on a skiing holiday in France, leaving David Cameron to face the anger of flood victims, I spend some of my Christmas break getting …

Badger cull cost £4,100 per badger, claim campaigners

The cost of the badger cull pilots in Somerset and Gloucestershire has been put at £4,100 per badger shot, campaigners claim – and put the cost of a four-year trial at £19 million. Animal charity Care for the Wild almost doubled its previous estimate, made in October, of £2,200 per animal, and now puts the …

GREAT NEWS – Gloucestershire badger cull to end as targets missed

The badger cull in Gloucestershire is being called off because not enough animals have been killed to meet targets. The licence has been revoked by Natural England and the cull will end at 12:00 GMT on Saturday, a spokesman said. An eight-week extension to the original six-week trial was due to end on 18 December. …

Bovine TB case confirmed in County Durham

AN outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) in cattle was last night confirmed in County Durham, sparking fears that the devastating disease could take hold in the North-East. Despite Government attempts to stop bovine TB spreading north, The Northern Echo has learnt that cattle on a farm in the Haswell area of east Durham have tested positive. …

Judi Hewitt: Life on patrol during a badger cull

Judi Hewitt: Life on patrol during a badger cull 8 Nov 2013 11:20 The animal welfare campaigner from North Wales goes to Gloucestershire to see first hand what goes on North Wales animal campaigner Judi Hewitt on patrol during the badger cull trials in Gloucestershire IT was 9.10pm and pitch black when we heard two …

Gloucestershire badger cull licence extension granted

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-24642465 23 October 2013 Last updated at 17:18 Gloucestershire badger cull licence extension granted Badger Defra said 708 badgers had been killed in the six-week Gloucestershire cull The pilot badger cull in west Gloucestershire will continue for another eight weeks after a licence was granted, Natural England has confirmed. During the six-week period of the …

Badger cull falls short of its target in Gloucestershire

Badger cull falls short of its target in Gloucestershire Company seeks extension as marksmen manage to kill only 30% of population against a target of 70% in alloted six weeks Adam Vaughan theguardian.com, Thursday 17 October 2013 The number of badgers killed in Gloucestershire as part of a cull by farmers and government to curb …