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

Two complete and utter scum bags found guilty of badger digging

Two bloodthirsty relatives of Britain's youngest police killer face jail for badger baiting JOHN MURRAY and son John jnr got their kicks from watching their hunting dogs tear badgers, cats and foxes to bits. TWO twisted relatives of Britain’s youngest police killer are facing jail after being convicted of badger baiting. Bloodthirsty father and son …

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 …

Fox Saved From Death At Dig-Out

On Saturday December 28th hunt saboteurs from Yorkshire attended a Pony Club meet of the York & Ainsty South Foxhounds at Escrick Park. Three foxes that were deliberately hunted were aided in their escape by the sabs through the course of the day and, as the sun was going down, three terrier men were found …

Revealed: boom in badger baiting in Scotland

An SSPCA image showing a dog following a fight with a badger. IT IS a barbaric crime that stirs such visceral revulsion that it was outlawed almost 200 years ago. However, an undercover investigator for the Scottish SPCA has revealed that badger baiting is thriving in 21st-century Scotland. Hundreds of incidents related to the illegal …

Pathetic sentences for badger diggers

Suspended sentences for barbaric trio set out to trap wild badgers They were carrying a fox’s tail, a tomahawk axe and an air rifle to commit a ‘barbaric and medieval’ crime. But Jake Berry, Rhys Dwyer and Daniel Fry avoided an immediate jail sentence after being convicted of offences related to badger baiting. The three …

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. …