Well it’s been an interesting, if slightly depressing day. Went out to check a sett at lunchtime, with one of our committee. A dedicated lady who has checked the setts on this site every day for months. This was her first return since a two week holiday. It had been dug in her absence. Rotten [...]
Archive | July, 2010
Cattle based measures and vaccination in the battle against TB
Following the recent news from the Court of Appeal on the WAG badger cull (see previous blog) my attention has turned to the the rest of the UK. The Conservative party had said that it intended to put a badger cull back on the table in their manifesto. Nick Herbert in a speech entitled “The [...]
Dogs in a hole….
I thought it was really important to blog this asap. We’ve just had a dog stuck in a badger sett. Terriers particularly are known to nip down the odd hole to see what they can find. Fortunately this episode ended 12 hours later when he came out of his own accord. It’s really important to [...]
BBC ‘inaccurate reporting’ or bias?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-10637059 The above news article seems to focus on only one ground in the appeal, the fact that the WAG cull order was inappropriately worded to cover the whole of Wales. In fact, the cull order was quashed on ALL THREE grounds, not least that a maximum reduction of 9 per cent in TB infections [...]
Weekend in Somerset, immersed in badgers!
Last weekend, four intrepid badger group members visited Secret World in Somerset, to learn how to handle badgers….. Saturday afternoon we all arrived from our various campsites more than a little bit excited. We were shown round the rescue centre, where there are hospital, and rehabilitation and finally pre-release pens for birds and animals of [...]
