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A slaughter of thousands of badgers is planned for England and Wales in 2011. ‘The Badger Protection League’ presented a petition of well over 16,000 signatures against the culling of badgers to 10 Downing Street, London on Monday March 28th at 1.30 p.m. Accompanying the petition and supporting the badger protection league’s fight against the cull were Kerry Mcarthy MP East Bristol and Charles Betts MP for Sheffield, alongside Pauline Kidner Charity Founder of Secret World Wildlife Rescue. Whilst Jim Paice’s (Minister of State for Agriculture & Food) department is yet to make up their minds, the Welsh Assembly has voted to go ahead with the killing of thousands of badgers as a strategy to control Bovine TB in cattle.
Fighting the proposed cull is ‘The Badger Protection League’ an umbrella organisation consisting of many groups whose membership exceeds 100,000 people. It is also supported by an array of celebrities, many of whom have studied wildlife all through their careers and are able to make measured and informed decisions. One of the many famous faces supporting the campaign, against the culling of badgers, is Anthony Head., Patron of Secret World Wildlife Rescue. Anthony quotes:
“For me, Badgers represent everything that I love about the English Countryside and I am saddened and appalled that the slaughter of thousands of badgers is planned for England and Wales from May 2011. Whilst I have empathy with farmers struggling to control the spread of Bovine TB it has been irrefutably proven that culling badgers will not resolve this issue. A more cost effective, and certainly more humane, way of managing this disease would be to trap and vaccinate badgers before releasing them back into the wild but instead they are to be culled. Farmers/landowners are to be given licenses to cage trap and shoot badgers, or to shoot free running badgers. If you, like me, are sickened by the Governments blinkered approach to addressing this ongoing problem please go to www.badgerprotectionleague.comand make your voice heard"
