Badgers are having a rough time in England, writes Lesley Docksey. But it's no better in most other European countries, where they enjoy no specific protection and digging, baiting and shooting are widespread. Hence the new Eurobadger coalition formed to campaign for them Europe-wide. The one shining example is Holland - TB-free since 1999 without killing a single badger!
… The Eurobadger coalition - fighting for badgers Europe-wide Lesley Docksey | 10th June 2016 Activism Badgers UK England France Germany Netherlands … Northern Ireland New Zealand blaireau-cut.jpg Badgers are having a rough time in England, …
As they argue for an extended and intensified badger cull, some farmers have been making extravagant and improbable claims about giant badgers frolicking with their cattle in the sunshine, write Jay Tiernan & Lesley Docksey. But despite holding office in the NFU, they display astonishing negligence by failing to adopt the most elementary bio-security measures advised by Defra to keep their cattle TB free.
… Lesley Docksey | 22nd August 2015 Activism Badgers Farming Health UK cattle-cut.jpg As … extravagant and improbable claims about giant badgers frolicking with their cattle in the … and the NFU insisting it must be done because badgers infect cattle with bovine tuberculosis …
Sneaked out shortly before MP's Christmas recess, the Government's decision to 'carry on culling' badgers with no evidence that the slaughter is reducing the incidence of bovine TB is a travesty of process, writes Lesley Docksey. But it does have one useful outcome - it has exposed Defra's claims that the cull is 'science-led' as arrant nonsense. Science never even got a look in.
… Lesley Docksey | 5th January 2015 Activism Badgers Mammals Hunting Farming Health UK … Government's decision to 'carry on culling' badgers with no evidence that the slaughter is … free for quite some years, without culling badgers. Wales took the decision in 2009 NOT …
Pending the publication of the long-delayed Independent Panel report on the badger cull, Lesley Docksey finds that the fight for England's badgers is part of an even bigger campaign for scientific and political integrity.
… March 2014 Activism Natural World UK Politics Badgers badger.png Pending the publication of … Docksey finds that the fight for England's badgers is part of an even bigger campaign for … as ever to pursue its policy of killing badgers to prevent TB in cattle. This …
Below-par farm biosecurity should block farmers from participating in England's badger culls, writes Anna Dale. But a large body of evidence of poor and negligent biosecurity by farmers suggests that Natural England, the government's official regulator, is turning a blind eye to this strict requirement - and undermining the purpose of the cull.
… Anna Dale | 29th March 2017 Activism Badgers Farming Regulation UK England Health … about the Government's intention to cull badgers I read all about bovine TB and came to the conclusion that killing badgers was not an effective course of action. …
If we are ever to bring bovine TB under control in Britain's cattle herd, we must begin with the main disease reservoir, writes Tom Langton: the cattle themselves. The insistence on culling badgers has little to do with disease control, and everything to do with the short term economics of the beef and dairy industries, unwilling to sacrifice an iota of production in the interests of a real solution.
… stupid Tom Langton | 28th April 2016 Activism Badgers Science Hunting UK Politics Natural … cattle themselves. The insistence on culling badgers has little to do with disease control, … Last year, once the invitation to cull badgers over a wider area was announced, it …
Organic farmer Charles Mann, aroused by The Ecologist's anti-cull stance, makes an evidence-based case for culling badgers in areas of high TB incidence - together with other measures including enhanced testing in apparently 'low risk' areas that present a high risk of disease spread.
… writes Charles Mann | 9th April 2015 Activism Badgers Natural World Farming Health … makes an evidence-based case for culling badgers in areas of high TB incidence - … is no scientific evidence to support culling badgers to control the disease in cattle - …
Since December 2011, when it became clear that the government was intent on its badger cull, Defra and Natural England have been flooded with FOI requests about how the culls would be set up, conducted and monitored. The notable success of Anna Dale in cutting through official obfuscation has implications for everyone trying to protect the environment and wildlife.
… Lesley Docksey | 1st April 2016 Activism Law Badgers UK FOI Protest Natural World … Public interest can also be cited. As culling badgers would not affect international … interest. Thus they argued that culling badgers was 'protecting the environment'. The …
Ecologist Tom Langton continues to make the case that the only way to eradicate bovine TB is through proper testing and not through badger culling which simply doesn't work
… ago found that the benefits of the culling of badgers were only seen some four years after …
The 25 TB-infected hounds of the Kimblewick hunt, all put down, remind us that the lot of hunting dogs is not a happy one, writes Lesley Docksey. Unloved and at constant risk of slaughter, they are prone to a host of diseases, from bovine TB to brucellosis, neospora and botulism, which they can pass on to farm stock, humans and other dogs. They deserve better!
… Docksey | 15th March 2017 Activism Hunting UK Badgers Natural World Animal Welfare … found in foxhounds - and nothing to do with badgers! Now what? ' by Lesley Docksey. ' …
British officialdom and those they serve are obsessed with the killing of wildlife, writes Lesley Docksey. It seems that whatever the 'problem', from bovine TB to the serendipitous arrival of beavers in Devon, the reflex is the same - to kill wild animals. But increasingly, the British people aren't having it. And our fightback is making waves ....
… | 11th September 2014 Activism Hunting Badgers Natural World UK 14th Septmber 2014 … friends you and I have made because of the badgers - and the buzzards and the hares and …
Lacking an official body to investigate and prosecute illegal cruelty to wildlife a unique charity, the RSPCA, took on that role almost 200 years ago, writes Lesley Docksey. But now it has ruffled high-ranking feathers by pursuing cases of illegal fox-hunting, and has been forced to leave prosecutions of such cases to the Crown Prosecution Service. But will the CPS do its job?
… 'traditions' of killing foxes, baiting badgers, snaring hares and the like. …
Now showing as part of London's International Mime Festival, Flesh and Blood is about two office workers becoming feral. It's absurd yet its ecological messages are clear, says Matilda Lee
Flesh and Blood & Fish and Fowl: a comedy about human extinction Matilda Lee | 21st January 2011 Activism Culture Change Climate Change Nature Endangered Species Downshifting Flesh And Blood & Fish …
Had enough of being a 'good environmental liberal' - trying to do the right thing while the world gets ever worse? Adam H argues for a Deep Green Resistance that attacks the power structures that perpetrate environmental destruction.
Deep Green Resistance in the UK Adam H | 16th April 2014 Activism Politics Society didcot-a.jpg Had enough of being a 'good environmental liberal' - trying to do the right thing while the world gets …
A polite knock on the door of a Mr John Shaw of Hastings got Emily Johns a visit from the police. How so? He's the CEO of a secretive 'non-profit company' that's using tens of millions of pounds of public funds to build white elephant business parks and destroy valuable nature sites. And avoiding accountability looks like a major point of the exercise.
Defending Hollington Valley? Don't even think of talking to the man who's destroying it Emily Johns Combe Haven Defenders | 20th July 2015 Activism Corporations Natural World Transport Development UK …
British conservationist and TV wildlife presenter Anneka Svenska is campaigning at Royal Ascot today to bring the plight of over 1,400 British racehorses that have died following racing injuries since 2007 to the attention of the mainstream - by wearing a dramatic hat made with a thousand blood-red roses.
Wildlife presenter wears 1,000 blood red roses to symbolise equine deaths from UK horse racing Susan Clark | 14th June 2016 Activism Animal Rights Horse Racing Cruelty Horses Race Horses ascot.jpg …
The Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust is the 2010 UK Gold Winner of the Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy. Watch and read about how they and five other finalists have made significant cuts to energy use on a community level...
Ashden Award Winners: building self-sufficient communities across the UK The Ecologist | 13th July 2010 Activism Climate Change And Energy Carbon Energy Saving Sustainable Energy Renewable Energy …