by Bob Simpson | Sep 24, 2022 | News
People are out and about in North-West Bucks finding badger setts and looking for cull related activity. We know that the cull has started in the Thames Valley Police area; probably in Oxfordshire. The only thing found so far in Bucks is pre-baiting (peanuts to...
by Bob Simpson | Jun 20, 2022 | News
Northamptonshire Farmers plan to kill...
by Bob Simpson | Feb 8, 2022 | News
Buckinghamshire is on the list of applications for badger culling released on gov.uk on 7th February 2022. We will release information when we have it however the proposed areas for the culling are kept secret. The area with most cattle bTb outbreaks in Bucks at...
by Bob Simpson | Aug 14, 2021 | News
Daera (Northern Ireland’s Defra) have a current consultation on future Bovine TB policy. Their preferred badger policy reads “Wildlife intervention would be in the form of a non-selective badger cull using controlled shooting of free roaming badgers, as...
by Bob Simpson | Jul 7, 2021 | News
THe government have at last started vaccination trials in Hertfordshire. Surprise, surprise, that after years of research they’ve chosen BCG again! Also the trial will test the Diva skin test so that they can differentiate between bTB infected cattle and...
by Bob Simpson | May 29, 2021 | News
Bad news and some glimmers of light at the end of the tunnel; £2M+ funding for mass vaccination of badgers in East Sussex!...
by Bob Simpson | May 17, 2021 | News
This is both good and bad news; badger culling will eventually reduce, but it will continue for many years! Hopefully there will be no, or very few, new licenses this year, but existing licenses will run for their 4 year term,. Short term supplementary licenses may...
by Bob Simpson | Feb 17, 2021 | News
“Government figures revealed 2020to have been the bloodiest year for badgers to date, with 38,642 animals shot dead.” Press and Publicity Officer for Calderdale Badger Protection Group, Emily Rawlins, details recent developments and setbacks in the laws on...
by Bob Simpson | Feb 10, 2021 | News
Defra risks undermining eight years of hard work from farmers in the fight against bovine TB if it replaces badger culling with vaccination without the science to prove it works. That was the damning verdict delivered by NFU leaders during a press briefing on its...
