High Court grants injunction to protect farmers from harassment and intimidation from anti-cull activists
The injunction will prevent those opposed to the cull from carrying out a number of unlawful acts against farmers and landowners. Speaking after the judgment, NFU President Peter Kendall welcomed the decision. “Let’s be clear from the start, this has never been about preventing people from holding legitimate and legal protests. This injunction is about […]
Surveillance cameras reveal how frequently badgers enter farms
Surveillance cameras installed on 75 farms in the south west have captured footage of badgers visiting farms a part of the Farm Assessment Toolkit project by the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA) to help farmers take steps to ‘badger-proof’ farm buildings and reduce the risk of tb spreading from wildlife to their herds. […]
House of Commons TB Debate 5th June 2013: Points to Consider
The NBA along with the NFU, BVA and other organisations support the policy of controlling the spread of TB by controlling the badger population. It is essential that the present culls go ahead and that Parliament does not prevent what is a necessity in the control of this notifiable highly infectious disease. If we do […]
Badger cull pilots the right scientific approach, says BVA
Although the shooting of badgers is not expected to start until later in the season the BVA is responding to activity amongst those who oppose the cull and appealing to them to allow the necessary scientific work to take place unhindered in the two pilot cull areas. The BVA pointed to the evidence base behind […]
New YouGov poll reveals the truth about public attitudes to the badger cull
Importantly, the survey also revealed that more than a quarter of people (27%) opposed to a cull would change their mind if it meant TB did not spread to other areas of the country. Only two per cent of 1,763 people asked considered a badger cull to be one of the most important issues facing […]
Outrage as Owen Paterson declares war on the badgers – ‘hard culling for 25 years’
In a frank interview, he said that if the two trials this summer were successful, then 40 more cull zones would be created over the next four years. Animal welfare organisations have reacted with fury, as Mr Paterson’s justification for the culling was dismissed by leading bTB scientist Lord Krebs, who said “If politicians are […]
FUW calls for scientific logic applied to deer numbers to be extended to badgers
The Farmers’ Union of Wales Council has called on scientists to recognise the huge damage being caused to the environment and cattle herds as a result of a massive increase in badger numbers, following a report by the University of East Anglia which highlights the need to reduce deer numbers to protect wildlife. Speaking after […]
