STOP the UK BADGER CULL
Responsible department:
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
We, the undersigned, call on the UK government to stop the planned cull of badgers on the following grounds: · Over 70% of the badger population in large areas of theUnited Kingdomwill be killed, many of them healthy. · The method of free-shooting badgers could cause severe injury to many thousands of badgers. · Independent scientific studies have shown that culling would be of little help in reducing bovine TB, and even suggest that it could make things worse in some areas. We urge the UK government to stop the cull and implement the more sustainable and humane solution of both a vaccination programme for badgers and cattle, along with improved testing and biosecurity.
Updates
February 19, 2017
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs remains silent despite the evidence we have presented regarding the efficacy of vaccination. I am currently preparing a formal report to submit to the committee that outlines the alternative strategies supported by scientific research. This momentum confirms that our concerns regarding the welfare of these animals are shared by many throughout the country.
August 22, 2013
The petition has now reached one thousand signatures. This level of engagement confirms that there is a significant public desire for a more humane approach to wildlife management.
Reached 1,000 supporters
August 22, 2013
Reached 100 supporters
March 12, 2013
231 Comments
To continue with the badger cull is indefensible when there is no outright evidence that says this will prove to eradicate the problem. This is a political tactic aimed at appeasing land owners in order to retain their support and should be stopped.
Bovine TB accounts for less than 1% of TB cases in the UK - we get the rest from human transmission. There has to be a better way of controlling TB than killing animals responsible for less than 1% of infections
The government cull showed that this was not effective. Please stop the culls now and put the money towards the badger vaccination programme. Culling is cruel and the many other problems causing TB in cattle should be addressed such as cattle movement and conditions. .
My family live in the UK. My Sister lives in Suffolk, and at her home, I have watched and loved watching the badgers, who come into there grounds at night to feed on peanuts. Wonderful animals. We should be proud of our wildlife and protect them at all costs.
I truly believe that vaccination programmes in all counties would be an effective way to stop the Tb problem. Culling is a very destructive way of dropping badger populations to the threatened lists of species. This is unacceptable. Be humane, think before you act!
I abhor this cruel unnecessary practice against defenceless animals . Use the vaccine!
The permission given by the government to cull a protected species is extraordinary when there is evidence that the cull is not working and the virus is spread via the cattle and slurry. NOT the badger. Needless....expensive ...cruel and working against good evidence,that it won’t help eradication of TB. It will help eradication of a protected species.
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STOP the UK BADGER CULL
Responsible department:
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
We, the undersigned, call on the UK government to stop the planned cull of badgers on the following grounds: · Over 70% of the badger population in large areas of theUnited Kingdomwill be killed, many of them healthy. · The method of free-shooting badgers could cause severe injury to many thousands of badgers. · Independent scientific studies have shown that culling would be of little help in reducing bovine TB, and even suggest that it could make things worse in some areas. We urge the UK government to stop the cull and implement the more sustainable and humane solution of both a vaccination programme for badgers and cattle, along with improved testing and biosecurity.
Updates
February 19, 2017
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs remains silent despite the evidence we have presented regarding the efficacy of vaccination. I am currently preparing a formal report to submit to the committee that outlines the alternative strategies supported by scientific research. This momentum confirms that our concerns regarding the welfare of these animals are shared by many throughout the country.
August 22, 2013
The petition has now reached one thousand signatures. This level of engagement confirms that there is a significant public desire for a more humane approach to wildlife management.
Reached 1,000 supporters
August 22, 2013
Reached 100 supporters
March 12, 2013
231 Comments
How much more scientific evidence does it take for the cull to be stopped. They need to stop free shooting immediately as even the numbers of the latest cull suggests that up to 80 badgers did not die immediately, but suffered a painful death. Even the BVA has said it is inhumane!
To continue with the badger cull is indefensible when there is no outright evidence that says this will prove to eradicate the problem. This is a political tactic aimed at appeasing land owners in order to retain their support and should be stopped.
Bovine TB accounts for less than 1% of TB cases in the UK - we get the rest from human transmission. There has to be a better way of controlling TB than killing animals responsible for less than 1% of infections
The government cull showed that this was not effective. Please stop the culls now and put the money towards the badger vaccination programme. Culling is cruel and the many other problems causing TB in cattle should be addressed such as cattle movement and conditions. .
My family live in the UK. My Sister lives in Suffolk, and at her home, I have watched and loved watching the badgers, who come into there grounds at night to feed on peanuts. Wonderful animals. We should be proud of our wildlife and protect them at all costs.
I truly believe that vaccination programmes in all counties would be an effective way to stop the Tb problem. Culling is a very destructive way of dropping badger populations to the threatened lists of species. This is unacceptable. Be humane, think before you act!
I abhor this cruel unnecessary practice against defenceless animals . Use the vaccine!
The permission given by the government to cull a protected species is extraordinary when there is evidence that the cull is not working and the virus is spread via the cattle and slurry. NOT the badger. Needless....expensive ...cruel and working against good evidence,that it won’t help eradication of TB. It will help eradication of a protected species.
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How much more scientific evidence does it take for the cull to be stopped. They need to stop free shooting immediately as even the numbers of the latest cull suggests that up to 80 badgers did not die immediately, but suffered a painful death. Even the BVA has said it is inhumane!