BAD NEWS FOR ENGLISH BADGERS

Last Updated (Monday, 26 July 2010 23:21)

Despite the developments in Wales here is some potentially dreadful news 

 

courtesy of the the ConDems

A BADGER CULL in England is set to go ahead in May 2011

Farming Minister Jim Paice announced a consultation would be undertaken this autumn, but said it would almost certainly recommend a cull.

The Tory MP claimed that the costs of trapping and killing badgers would be covered by the farming industry.

 

He said: “I don’t want to cull badgers, (cost & logistics ??) so believe me, if there was a better way to do it we would do it.

“But the reality is that there is no country in the world that has got rid of TB without addressing the problem where it is in wildlife.”

anyone can use statistics to justify anything - Rats carry bTb - 1.4% according to DEFRA however with an estimated UK population of 200 million - surely a bigger threat, & while it is possible to prevent badgers contacting cattle - just try & keep rats from farms

National Farmers Union president Peter Kendall insisted TB was “destroying the British dairy industry”.

The Badger Trust, which brought the case against the Welsh Assembly, said that it was “obliged to do all it can to ensure the welfare of the species by a variety of means”.

 As if things weren't bad enough with the rise in badger baiting - prepare for the re-introduction of fox-hunting & decriminalisation of hare coursing & cock fighting.

Northern Ireland  have announced a bovine TB Strategy

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it is against the law to:

• Wilfully kill, injure or take a badger.
   
• Cruelly mistreat a badger.
   
• Dig for a badger.
   
• Intentionally or recklessly damage or destroy a badger sett – or obstruct access to it.
   
• Cause a dog to enter a badger sett.
   
• Disturb a badger when it is occupying a sett.

But the protection is not absolute - there are exceptions. Licences to undertake some actions can be issued if it is justified. Take a case where a badger sett is found on a proposed site for a road or housing development. Just bulldozing the sett would risk killing or injuring the badgers and be illegal so the authorities (see below) may license action allowing the badgers to be carefully excluded from the sett, making them move elsewhere in their territory.

FAQs and factsheet - Living with badgers (PDF 203KB) - provide more information and detailed advice is available in Natural England's advisory leaflets.

 

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