by Bob Simpson | May 22, 2018 | News
Animal activist Brian Blessed had a heated disagreement with farmers while hosting a pig and poultry dinner in Warwickshire, it has been reported. The actor was dressed as a Tudor king and had been asked what laws he would enact were he a ruling monarch. Blessed, who...
by Bob Simpson | Apr 23, 2018 | News
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by Bob Simpson | Apr 9, 2018 | News
8th April Bucks Free Press LETTERS FROM WESTMINSTER: ‘Is it time the Chilterns AONB was given National Park status?’ This week Chesham and Amersham MP Dame Cheryl Gillan writes exclusively to Bucks Free Press readers: Two million people live within 10 kilometres of...
by Bob Simpson | Apr 8, 2018 | News
The Badger Trust is launching a new badger vaccination grant scheme. Grants from £1000 to £1500 will be available to both Badger Trust affiliated and non affiliated organisations who wish to undertake badger vaccination projects in England and Wales. The grant fund...
by Bob Simpson | Mar 29, 2018 | News
The Board of the Badger Trust has just approved £20,000 funding to assist Tom Langton’s two Judicial Reviews into the government’s expanded badger cull policy. The new grant follows on from the success of Tom’s ICO case for which the Trust raised £12,100 through...
by Bob Simpson | Mar 10, 2018 | News
From Dominic Dyer, CEO Badger Trust Dear Group members, Badgers under growing threat across England Urge the government to abandon plans to extend badger culls Over the past 5 years, 35,000 or more badgers have been needlessly shot under licence across England, as...
by Bob Simpson | Mar 7, 2018 | News
From Bob Simpson, Chair of Bucks Badger Group 7 MAR 2018 More bad news following on from the previous post regarding license applications for Oxfordshire and Berkshire! I just looked up the bTB risk area map (www.gov.uk/guidance/bovine-tb-testing-intervals-2018) and...
by Bob Simpson | Mar 7, 2018 | News
Nigel Tolley, Badger Trust Trustee, has retweeted a message sent to him from Amelea Teckel: Former Deputy Chief Vet Alick Simmons tweeted this to me yesterday: “Spent my career controlling livestock disease. Eradication of the bTB organism is impossible in the...
by Bob Simpson | Mar 7, 2018 | News
6 MAR 2018 Report from the Daily Mirror article by Ben Glaze Activists fear up to 50,000 badgers could be slaughtered this year if new licences are granted. Officials are plotting to widen the controversial badger cull in a fresh blow to campaigners’ calls to...
by Bob Simpson | Mar 2, 2018 | News
From: The Badger Trust Clare Hammacott Trust Fund Clare Hammacott left a substantial legacy to the Badger Trust following her sad death from cancer in December 2016. In memory of Clare and in line with her belief that badger groups and volunteers are the lifeblood of...
