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Gloucestershire Against Badger Shooting has raised ten questions about public safety and the badger cull. Public Safety in the 2014 Badger Cull: Just how safe are the public when… 1. New Guidelines allow lone shooters to operate without safety lookouts? 2. New Guidelines allow lone shooters using Night Vision to ...read more →
NFU president Meurig Raymond said farmers in the prospective cull areas were becoming frustrated at the lack of action on bovine TB and wanted clarity about whether new areas could be licensed this year. Source: www.fginsight.com See on Scoop.it – Bovine TB, badgers and cattle
Westcountry MP Neil Parish is to use his election as chairman of a powerful House of Commons select committee to test the evidence that culling badgers is helping to bring down TB in cattle.Mr… Source: www.westernmorningnews.co.uk Unfortunately as the badger culls were carried out with no scientific oversight it will ...read more →
Right winger Owen Paterson has said he would be happy to rejoin David Cameron’s Government, insisting the whole party wishes the new administration… Source: www.theargus.co.uk Green Blob fighter Owen Paterson pushes for power in Cameron’s new government. Politics over evidence would make a reappearance if he is given a new ...read more →
A marine biologist believes the deaths may be the result of indiscriminate seabed trawling Source: www.walesonline.co.uk
The new Conservative government has much to get to grips with when it comes to farming. We take a look at 10 priorities for agriculture. 1. New team at Def Source: www.fwi.co.uk English farmers will expect a lot more from the new conservative dominated DEFRA. The badger cull will be ...read more →
Source: www.cherwell.org Well worth a read; Bill Oddie is passionate about wildlife and contemptuous of David Cameron.
Farmers have been spared the need to go to court to fight for the continuation of the badger cull thanks to the Conservatives’ election victory.Senior NFU members in the South West were poised to… Source: www.westernmorningnews.co.uk Nature is one of the big losers in today’s ‘U.K.’ election result as national ...read more →
Queen guitarist Brian May on why David Cameron represents privilege – and why our political system is a “disgrace” Source: www.bigissue.com David Cameron has had five years to lead ‘the greenest government ever’. He has failed dismally showing, through his choice of obfuscating Environment Secretaries, that he never held deep ...read more →
Just how dry is California? Here is every map of the state released by the U.S. Drought Monitor since 2011. The majority of California is experiencing extreme to exceptional drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, and the state’s condition isn’t expected to improve in the near future. The Drought Monitor, ...read more →
Farmers and vets from the major organisations representing agricultural interests in Britain will present a united front to the incoming government on how they believe cattle diseases, including… Source: www.westernmorningnews.co.uk This should read ‘representing some of the interested agricultural and veterinary parties’. There are many farmers and vets who don’t ...read more →