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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 →
TWO areas off the North Devon coast, along with an offshore area north of Lundy, are set to be considered for designation as Marine Conservation Zones. The Department of Environment, Food and Rural… Source: www.northdevonjournal.co.uk The pace for declaring inshore Marine Conservation Zones has been glacially slow. Marine conservation for ...read more →
Up to 40 cattle have been slaughtered following a rare outbreak of bovine TB on a farm in Lincolnshire. The cattle tested positive for the disease in Octob Source: www.fwi.co.uk Bovine TB is a disease of cattle primarily. This outbreak serves to remind that uninfected wildlife can only be a ...read more →
Energy company says insufficient oil and gas found to merit further exploration, delighting locals and environmentalists Energy giant Repsol abandoned its controversial search for oil and gas off Spain’s Canary Islands, delighting locals and… Source: www.theguardian.com
MEMBERS of Natural Devon (Devon Local Nature Partnership) have met with Defra Minister Lord de Mauley. Source: www.thisisthewestcountry.co.uk High level DEFRA political access has not been granted to Local Nature Partnerships to the same Degree as Local Enterprise Partnerships have enjoyed from BIS. Godd work here from Devon LNP.
Starting Thursday, the Sustainable Business Council in Missoula will be hosting a series of free workshops designed to give employers ideas on how to improve productivity, reduce absenteeism and increase Source: missoulian.com Sustainability is such a far off prospect for most organisations (and if challenged I could name very few ...read more →
Jay Tiernan of Stop the Cull campaign found in contempt of court for nine breaches of an injunction brought in by the National Farmers’ Union Source: www.theguardian.com “Tiernan, who is based in the south-west of England, said he was “flabbergasted’ that he had received such a heavy sentence. “I was ...read more →
The independent experts’ report on the 2013 badger culls confirms that free shooting as practiced in the culls was not a humane method of killing badgers. The story of Badger 41 illustrates why. Source: www.badgergate.org Badger 41 – a victim of the badger cull; inhumanely killed in the fields of ...read more →
Badger Trust chairman Dominic Dyer is challenging every political party in Britain to reveal its policy on the badger cull ahead of the general election.In an exclusive interview with the Western… Source: www.westernmorningnews.co.uk Clarity over future political policy on culling badgers is needed. The science does not support culling as ...read more →
In the flurry of the holiday season, many people will have missed the government’s verdict on the 2014 badger culls, published on December 18. Farmers’ representatives have branded these recent culls “successful… Source: theconversation.com Prof Rosie Woodruffe puts the case clearly and simply: the 2014 badger culls in both Gloucestershire ...read more →
BBC Inside Out follows the badger vaccination team in Cornwall as they test whether vaccination could be an effective alternative to culling. Source: www.bbc.co.uk Badger vaccination is an important affordable tool in the control and management of bovine TB. MPs and farmers should pay attention to the facts and put ...read more →