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Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 3:36 am Post subject: Share your views on forthcoming badger cull in Wales

Badger trials and tribulations... Plans to introduce a targeted badger cull in Wales may be put on hold again as welfare group Badger Trust launches yet another legal attempt to stop the "utterly pointless slaughter of an indigenous species". The Welsh Assembly Government's targeted badger cull is expected to begin "any day now" following a High Court ruling that it was lawful, but the trust has now been given the go-ahead by a judge from the Court of Appeal to challenge that decision. This time, the trust's main argument seems to be one of semantics - determining the true meaning of the phrase "substantially reduce" (as used in the Animal Health Act 1981 regarding the destruction of wildlife due to any infection other than rabies). However, given that Welsh chief veterinary officer Christianne Glossop opined, less than two weeks ago, that culling badgers can "substantially reduce TB in cattle", it feels like Badger Trust is simply trying to delay the inevitable while it tries to debunk the latest RBCT findings. What do you think?

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Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 6:44 am Post subject: Re: Share your views on forthcoming badger cull in Wales

Dear Supporter, We need your help regarding the recent announcement from the government, that they may be undertaking a cull of badgers to control bovine TB in England. In the agreed government coalition document, it states that the government will undertake actions against bovine TB (bTB) on a science-based approach. Please email your MP asking them not to support a badger cull. Why is a badger cull not the right answer? The latest science following a ten year study shows that, in order for badger culling to achieve any reduction in bTB, a cull would have to meet very specific criteria (over a very large geographical area, it would have to virtually wipe out the local badger population and take place over a number of years). It also shows that culling badgers in a local area increases bTB infection in cattle in the surrounding areas, and achieves only a limited reduction within the area targeted. So, the science suggests that the culling of badgers has only a limited benefit and in small areas, or areas where there is less than a total cull, the benefit is clearly outweighed by the increase in cattle bTB elsewhere. In addition a cull of badgers is shortly due to begin in west Wales and the RSPCA believes that until the results of this are known it would be premature for England to undertake a cull. Please take action today. Urge your MP not to support the cull. Other ways to combat bovine TB in badgers In 2006 when a cull was last under discussion, over 47,000 people responded to the government's consultation and stated that they did not want a cull to go ahead. The government subsequently focused on other ways of combating the disease. One of these, badger vaccination, was due to start in June. If badger culling went ahead it would be difficult to tell which method has affected change in the disease patterns. This is currently the case in Wales. How can I help? Please email your MP asking them not to support a cull and urge the Secretary of State at Defra, Rt Hon Caroline Spelman MP, not to go down the route of a cull.

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