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IFAW’s position on Cameron’s irrational badger cull to address the issue of Bovine TB has always been clear: Badgers are not really the problem, but the problem is with cattle, how they move from herd to herd, how they are tested, and how they are kept and managed. This is ...read more →
Animals being killed in attempt to stop spread of TB in cattle Source: www.irishtimes.com
A court room battle will be staged tomorrow over whether a group which has fought the badger cull has the right to harvest information from a secret panel which decided to press ahead with the… Source: www.westernmorningnews.co.uk
Vaccinations can help us tackle bovine TB, but they are not a panacea, says Professor Mark Chambers, of the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA). There is always great interest in… Source: www.westernmorningnews.co.uk Vaccines against bovine TB have their place in the battle Against bovine TB. The challenge for ...read more →
The new Environment Secretary has told ITV News that badgers won’t be gassed as part of the badger cull. Liz Truss was speaking on a visit to Somerset, just ten days after taking over from Owen Paterson in the cabinet reshuffle. Her comments came as she toured dredging work in ...read more →
Trees are saving more than 850 human lives each year and preventing 670,000 cases of acute respiratory symptoms in the U.S., according to the first broad-scale estimate of trees’ air pollution removal by U.S. Forest Service researchers. Source: e360.yale.edu Ecosystem Services contribute to human society at every level; we just ...read more →
The government of Montenegro has revived a plan to erect four dams on the Moraca river abandoned after an international outcry and a lack of investors less than three years ago. Source: wwf.panda.org
The RSPCA may have completed its last hunting prosecution as the charity confirms it could cease taking cases to the courts in months Source: www.telegraph.co.uk ||The Countryside Alliance said they would welcome a move to stop the RSPCA pursuing hunts through the courts. A spokesman said: “We have had some ...read more →
How did Germany do it? No, not its World Cup victory – how did Germany engineer Europe’s highest penetration of renewable energy, plus fast-dropping electricity prices? Keith Barnham explains – and says the UK could do the same, and better! Source: www.theecologist.org Germany is a world beater in many ways ...read more →
The British Veterinary Association (BVA) has backed Government plans to repeat two pilot badger culls after assurances from the Environment Department, Defra, that the killing would be ‘robustly’… Source: www.westernmorningnews.co.uk No Independent assessment – yet the Vets’ trade association supports renewed badger culling within the pilot cull zones of Gloucestershire ...read more →