An international wildlife treaty body has called on the UK government to swiftly bring its years-long slaughter of the iconic and protected badger to an end. Following a meeting in June, the Bureau of the Bern Convention issued a decision, which instructed the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to “move with greater […]| Protect the Wild
LYONS (2024 Result 3 Liberal 2 Labor 1 Green 1 JLN)| Dr Kevin Bonham
Labour's Planning and Infrastructure Bill aims to allow companies to pay to trash the British countryside. It will do away with existing checks and balances in the planning system and establish a legal framework allowing developers to destroy irreplaceable natural ecosystems. Corporations will pay into a planned Nature Restoration Fund…| Protect the Wild
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The badger cull is robbing our forests and countryside of these most precious and integral inhabitants| Protect the Wild
Freedom of information requests reveal the state of biosecurity on farms participating in the cull, which casts doubt on case for continued badger killing| Protect the Wild
The UK government is also under pressure to end England's irrational and wantonly destructive badger cull| Protect the Wild
Ex-Essex & Suffolk Huntsman Sam Staniland plead guilty to three animal cruelty charges under the Animal Welfare Act at Ipswich Magistrates Court on 26 February. He is due to be sentenced on 10 April at Norwich Crown Court. The judge said that "all sentencing options" would "be open". Staniland pleaded…| Protect the Wild
Cumbria Constabulary has sent Community Protection Warnings (CPWs) to two Cumbria hunts, after receiving complaints from the public. We asked Cumbria Constabulary about the contents of the CPWs. They told us that: The Community Protection Warning informed the [hunt] groups that we have received numerous reports regarding issues relating to…| Protect the Wild
What a sweet line-up of FPP patterns I'm sharing today.| Chris Dodsley @mbCD
Brian May: The Badgers, the Farmers, and Me’ is a documentary that was aired on BBC2 at 9.00pm on Friday 23 August, and is now available on the BBC iplayer. Filmed over 4 years, the programme chart…| The Badger Crowd - standing up for badgers