Anyone working to protect badgers from culling will know of Dominic Dyer - wildlife advocate and new director of the Badger Trust. Lesley Docksey met him 'on the hoof' at a recent march - and found out just why the badger campaign is so important to him.
… experience he gained in food, agriculture and conservation issues in the UK and Brussels led … the young audience were on environment and conservation issues, ranging from climate …
This charming and beautifully illustrated story book will give pleasure to children everywhere, writes Lesley Docksey. It will also open their eyes (and with luck, those of parents and siblings) to the wonderful world of bats, and what we can do to look after them.
… Lesley Docksey | 17th January 2017 Reviews Conservation Books Bats Education Youth … Mills, a committed supporter of the Bat Conservation Trust , thought people needed to … book will be donated to the Trust to help its conservation work. If you want to help bats, …
New figures just released by Defra show that bovine TB was declining in UK herds - just as Paterson claimed the disease was 'spreading' - and that Wales's no-cull, biosecurity and vaccination policy led to a 24% drop in herd infections.
Defra's astonishing new TB figures - an end to the cull? Lesley Docksey Oliver Tickell | 14th February 2014 News UK Politics Natural World badger-devon.png New figures just released by Defra show …
In the second of a three part analysis of the ongoing UK badger cull Lesley Docksey takes a look at the activism that has been stirred up by the controversial cull......
… there were howls of protest from wildlife and conservation bodies, people who loved badgers … and with a professional background in conservation, was sacked because she had …
Number 10 is seeking an 'escape plan' for a badger cull gone disastrously wrong under Owen Paterson's direction. Lesley Docksey reports on a likely end to the cull - and to Paterson's ministerial role.
Number 10's badger cull 'escape plan' - Paterson doomed? Lesley Docksey | 18th January 2014 News Natural World Badgers Politics UK badger-bating.png Number 10 is seeking an 'escape plan' for a badger …
With today's news that badger culling will continue in Gloucester, Somerset and Dorset, and take place in three other counties, writes LESLEY DOCKSEY, there could be no more opportune moment for Dominic Dyer's new book 'Badgered to Death' to appear - expertly exposing the total absence of scientific evidence that badgers transmit bovine TB to cattle.
… and take up full-time work for wildlife conservation. But why did he become such a …
Last week the Upper Tribunal of the Royal Courts of Justice ordered Defra to release key information about the badger cull based on a 'public interest' argument, writes Lesley Docksey. Could this judgment open a new era of transparent and accountable government?
Can 'Public Interest' protect Britain's wildlife? Lesley Docksey | 8th August 2014 News Law UK Natural World Badgers redaction-cut.jpg Last week the Upper Tribunal of the Royal Courts of Justice …
Fresh events in the ongoing badger cull saga suggest that despite underhand politics and statistical manipulation, the tide is turning in favour of the badgers..............
… to the anger of the RSPB and other wildlife conservation groups who had thought they were …
To live sustainably we must learn to live with wildlife, Patrick Barkham argues in his book Badgerlands. To do this we have much to learn from our ancestors - but we must also discard their barbaric practices and outrageous myths that, even today, some are so keen to perpetuate.
The beguiling magic of badgers at dusk Lesley Docksey | 25th July 2014 Reviews Natural World Badgers UK badgerlands-cut.jpg To live sustainably we must learn to live with wildlife, Patrick Barkham …
Brian May is best known as lead guitarist for the rock band Queen. But as Lesley Docksey discovers, he is also an astrophysicist, and a committed - and highly effective - advocate for Britain's wild animals, including badgers put at risk by England's cull programme.
Brian May - from rock star to badger champion Lesley Docksey | 10th March 2014 Comment Natural World Health Farming brian-may.png Brian May is best known as lead guitarist for the rock band Queen. …
In the first of a three part analysis of the ongoing UK badger cull Lesley Docksey examines current and historical data and concludes that the government are simply ignoring the science of epidemiology..........
… concerned about animal welfare, wildlife and conservation. It would not make sense for …