Badgers - Black and White campaign

[birdwatcher28]

Hi

I have added my voice to this campaign. What benefit badger culling would have is beyond me. We need to protect this species for future generations to enjoy.

If anyone hasn't added their voice to this campaign. please do so. If we don't speak out for badgers and other wildlife then who will.

Paul

[Tragus]

Many thanks to all of you who have been and shown your support
Welcome to WAB Paul, Brains and Paul (birdwatcher28) and thankyou.
And thank you Nightshade and Matt
cheers
Jo

[Fritillary]

OUff I have just read your post!! My name is in now
I will send the address to other forum to see if there are more support.

It looks like nowadays people dont want any other animal just the ones that are useful.

You see with the bird flu, people are being afraid of cats, perroquets, etc etc. , killing them or throwing away.

Fritillary

[Tragus]

Hi Fritillary, Welcome to WAB and thank you for taking time to email

Can I just say a HUUUUGGGGEE THANK YOU to everyone that has taken time to read this thread and visit the website to make their feelings known.

The deadline for sending emails was at 1700 GMT on March 10th 2006 today.
If you still feel strongly about this and would like to do more, then you can always write to your local MP.

I'm sending out a big virtual hug to all of you {{{{{{{{{{hugs}}}}}}}}}}

Cheers
Jo

[carlj]

Mirror this morning had news on Sir David Attenborough stating his opinion on the proposed cull and that there was no scientific evidence to say culling is the best option.

Public perception can only be helped - and I'm no fan of celebrity!

Jo, hope some weight is pulled thanks to this thread and others like it!

Carl

[BigAl]

I thought I'dheard (perhaps on the BBC Countryile programme) that, if anything, culliong of badgers had led to an INCREASE in TB among cattle?

Can't recall the mechanism that was proposed.

[Willow]

Originally Posted by BigAl

I thought I'dheard (perhaps on the BBC Countryile programme) that, if anything, culliong of badgers had led to an INCREASE in TB among cattle?

Hi BigAl,

Yes - that's exactly what the scientific evidence showed, as far as I can see. There was an increase in TB in cattle at the edges of the control areas for past culls, probably due to changes in movement, dispersal, social behaviour etc of the badgers who survived. The evidence was that, at best, the culls would lead to little benefit.

It makes my blood boil that the Government proposes ignoring this evidence to make the badger a scapegoat for the situation....There's so much more work needs to be done on what's clearly been shown - that the main source of infection in cattle is by other cattle....

All this is put in a nutshell in a great letter from the Wildlife Trusts to the Guardian yesterday (10th March), signed by Prof Aubrey Manning, David Attenborough and Prof David McDonald.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/st...727626,00.html


I'm keeping everything crossed that DEFRA will see sense!

[Eileen]

I sent my e.mail off too on Friady. Just made it by the skin of my teeth but it's all done and dusted.

[Oscar2006]

My in-laws are cattle (Bullocks) farmers, they have badgers on their land and they would not raise a finger to harm them in any way - DEFRA have not got it 100% correct here!

[Alan]

Just read in the latest edition of British Wildlife Journal:

'For the first time since 1980, the number of cattle detected as having Bovine TB has declined. The latest figures, from three months in the earlier part of 2006, reveal that the number of cattle slaughtered because of the desease has fallen by 29%. Significantly, this decline coincides with the introduction of herd-movement controls, notably the introduction of pre-movement TB-testing for cattle'.

Interesting!