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A WILDLIFE charity in Dorset has started a five-year programme of badger vaccinations. Gordon McGlone‘s insight: Dorset Wildlife Trust is one of over a dozen trusts in England and Wales that is now vaccinating or preparing to vaccinate in 2014. A strategic badger vaccination plan for England, similar to the ...read more →
Natural England has released a statement giving its reasons why it has chosen to end the extended pilot badger cull in West Gloucestershire early.See on www.itv.com
Pilot cull to end earlier than planned after Natural England revokes licence over failure to meet greatly reduced targetsSee on www.theguardian.com
Gordon McGlone‘s insight: Time is not on the side of the cautious; waiting to gather sufficient evidence to challenge the license extension for the Gloucestershire pilot cull has worked against the case put by Brain May and his charity Save Me. A poorly prepared rushed case with insufficient evidence was ...read more →
INJECTABLE badger vaccination will rely on the support of animal welfare and conservation groups and individual volunteers if it is to become widely used, a conference on TB vaccination heard. Gordon McGlone‘s insight: There are now 180 lay vaccinators trained in badger vaccination. Twenty Groups are active in vaccinating badgers ...read more →
OWNERS of alpacas and llamas will be urged to do more to prevent the spread of bovine TB (bTB) between their animals, under new voluntary measures unveiled by Defra. Gordon McGlone‘s insight: Badgers are culled whilst the owners of Camelids are asked nicely to do more to help; no compulsion ...read more →
Badger campaigners have launched a legal challenge to the Gloucestershire cull extension. Gordon McGlone‘s insight: The Gloucestershire badger cull is a confused mishmash of a pilot to see if free shooting badgers by privately licensed culling companies works (it doesn’t) and a rushed extension to the license by Natrual Engalnd’s ...read more →
CELEBRITY gardener and Soil Association president Monty Don has quit Twitter after receiving abusive comments over his stance on the badger cull.See on m.farmersguardian.com
BRIAN May’s Save Me campaign has launched a legal challenge against the decision to grant an eight-week extension to the pilot badger cull in Gloucestershire.See on m.farmersguardian.com
’Project Sunlight’ aims to motivate people to transition to more sustainable lifestyles. Gordon McGlone‘s insight: Unilever aims to put sunshine into sustainability. ||Unilever is running its first consumer-facing brand campaign with the launch of Project Sunlight, an initiative aimed at motivating people to live more sustainable lifestyles.|| See on www.marketingweek.co.uk