Save Welsh Badgers from being Culled

Badgers are the face of the British countryside – harmless, loved, unique and secretive. It is extraordinary that they have managed to survive at all in a landscape that is so intensively farmed.

They face illegal trapping, baiting with dogs and 50,000 die on the roads each year. Now they face their biggest threat yet: the dairy industry!

Badgers are accused by farmers of being the main culprits in spreading bovine TB. The real culprits are farming practices so intense that dairy cows face repeated infections from mastitis and laminitis and rarely survive beyond five years old. One-third of TB tests are inaccurate, allowing disease carriers to reinfect their herd or to be transported around the UK, infecting new herds.

A £50 million, 10-year, independent investigation by top scientists (ISG) concluded that:
“Badger culling cannot meaningfully contribute to the control of cattle TB.”

Yet still farmers are calling for their pound of badger flesh. Thousands of animals will be hunted, trapped, caged and shot. It will be a wildlife
massacre and to no purpose - other than mollifying farmers who refuse to change their ways.

The Rally in Cardiff on June 28th was excellent, an estimated 400 supporters turned up. A huge thank you to each and every one of them, And also to all the others who couldnt attend but equally support this battle to stop the cull by petitioning and lobbying the Welsh Assembly. Well Done.


This isn’t just a Welsh problem – this mass slaughter of wildlife must be fought by us all.

Pre - Formatted letter to Hilary Benn : http://www.oipa.org/hunting/alerts/wales_petition.html

Petition :
http://www.blackandwhite.info/index.htm

http://www.viva.org.uk/campaigns/badgers/rally.htm

Please write / email :
Sample letters here : http://www.viva.org.uk/campaigns/badgers/action.htm
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Rally for the Badgers in South Wales :
http://www.viva.org.uk/campaigns/badgers/rally.htm

Rally for the Badgers in North Wales : http://www.viva.org.uk/campaigns/badgers/nwrally.htm