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...
by Bob Simpson | Feb 23, 2018 | News
Friday February 23rd 2018 I News The Essential Daily Briefing Opinion An article by KG Walsha “The weight of scientific opinion is stacked against this unnecessary slaughter of British wildlife, and the vast majority of badgers tested for bTB post-mortem since the...
by Bob Simpson | Feb 23, 2018 | News
Wednesday 21st February 2018 Defra secretary Michael Gove has refused to say whether he is committed to culling badgers as a means of controlling bovine tuberculosis in cattle. Mr Gove was responding to a question from Farmers Weekly after delivering a keynote address...
by Bob Simpson | Feb 23, 2018 | News
Posted 19th February, 2018 A review of the 25-year strategy to tackle bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in cattle which includes the culling of badgers has recently been announced by the Government. The independent assessment will look at the system of intervention to...
by Bob Simpson | Feb 18, 2018 | News
18th February 2018 A Defra report has been published on the TB testing conducted on badgers in 9 badger control areas in the High Risk Area of England in 2016. Thi has shown that of 861 badgers tested for TB only 42 had TB and only 6 of them had severe TB. This means...
by Bob Simpson | Feb 18, 2018 | News
However, the report states that ” the review will not re-visit the rationale for current interventions in the Strategy. It will take a prospective and not a retrospective view. It is not a review of badger culling.” The review will commence in March and...
