Protect North Somerset Council's remaining badgers by investing in badger vaccination projects in the area.
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T. Buzzard
12 years ago
Think traffic on the roads cull enough badgers anyway. As custodians of the land Farmers should set aside reserves on their property and work with wildlife not against it.
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Patricia O'Connell
12 years ago
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The total cost of the Welsh Government vacination programme in 2012-where very,very few badgers were shown to have bovine TB was 1.2 million pounds. this was over half amillion pounds less than the cost of the policing of the Gloucestershire cull this summer. Where is the economic-let alone etical-sense in this?
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Ally Gregory
12 years ago
Badgercull is inhumane, inefficient and costly. Do not let it happen in North Somerset
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Adrian Coward
12 years ago
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The actions of North Somerset Council should reflect the will of the majority of the residents and not support badger culling, but proactively support badger vaccination.
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Lynn Goodby
12 years ago
Should never have happened.
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Susan pell
12 years ago
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The cull has been an atrocity, and an utter failure. Many hundreds of badgers are dead, and the only likely outcome is that bTB will spread due to perturbation. Vaccination of badgers is the only workable option
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Vanessa Mason
12 years ago
The pilot badger culls have been a failure; have resulted in the unnecessary killing of 940 badgers in West Somerset at an estimated cost of £4,100 per badger - £3,854,000. They will not have helped farmers with the problem of bTB in their cattle and have been divisive and split members of local communities. Vaccinating badgers until cattle vaccination is a reality has none of these negative issues and there is a growing band of well trained, willing volunteer waiting to help.
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Alan Daniels
12 years ago
Enjoy my holidays in Somerset, but would not return if Badgers being slaughtered in the county
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Helen Mason
12 years ago
The science does not support a cull and I will oppose an introduction to culling in North Somerset
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Marjorie
12 years ago
We must protect our wildlife at all costs and in doing so protect the balance of life.
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Sue Hardie
12 years ago
Please don't let this madness continue.
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Amanda Barrett
12 years ago
I believe in the Gov's manifesto to make room for wildlife - and that means badgers. Culling large numbers of badgers would, at best, give meagre benefits in reducing the cases of bTB within the National Herd and that is scientifically proven unlike the spin put on current badger cull policy by Coalition Government pandering to prejudice of NFU & the farming industry
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Stephen Rowsell
12 years ago
Vaccination is the only progressive and effective way!
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ju hodges
12 years ago
unscientific & cruel. VACCINATE please
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Jill Inglis
12 years ago
Let us prove this really is the solution
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Mandy Chisholm
12 years ago
Hampshire County Council Said "Hands Off Our Badgers". You could follow this wise decision!!!
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Helen Mason
12 years ago
The pilot culls this year were a disgrace. A failure predicted by leading scientific experts. This must not be allowed to happen again.
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Jeanette Fletcher
12 years ago
Do the humand thing, vaccinate not exterminate.
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Anonymous
12 years ago
The world is not a bad place, it's what we are doing to it and in it that causes the problems.
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Barbara Lunn
12 years ago
These creatures should be protected not persecuted
Think traffic on the roads cull enough badgers anyway. As custodians of the land Farmers should set aside reserves on their property and work with wildlife not against it.
The total cost of the Welsh Government vacination programme in 2012-where very,very few badgers were shown to have bovine TB was 1.2 million pounds. this was over half amillion pounds less than the cost of the policing of the Gloucestershire cull this summer. Where is the economic-let alone etical-sense in this?
Badgercull is inhumane, inefficient and costly. Do not let it happen in North Somerset
The actions of North Somerset Council should reflect the will of the majority of the residents and not support badger culling, but proactively support badger vaccination.
Should never have happened.
The cull has been an atrocity, and an utter failure. Many hundreds of badgers are dead, and the only likely outcome is that bTB will spread due to perturbation. Vaccination of badgers is the only workable option
The pilot badger culls have been a failure; have resulted in the unnecessary killing of 940 badgers in West Somerset at an estimated cost of £4,100 per badger - £3,854,000. They will not have helped farmers with the problem of bTB in their cattle and have been divisive and split members of local communities. Vaccinating badgers until cattle vaccination is a reality has none of these negative issues and there is a growing band of well trained, willing volunteer waiting to help.
Enjoy my holidays in Somerset, but would not return if Badgers being slaughtered in the county
The science does not support a cull and I will oppose an introduction to culling in North Somerset
We must protect our wildlife at all costs and in doing so protect the balance of life.
Please don't let this madness continue.
I believe in the Gov's manifesto to make room for wildlife - and that means badgers. Culling large numbers of badgers would, at best, give meagre benefits in reducing the cases of bTB within the National Herd and that is scientifically proven unlike the spin put on current badger cull policy by Coalition Government pandering to prejudice of NFU & the farming industry
Vaccination is the only progressive and effective way!
unscientific & cruel. VACCINATE please
Let us prove this really is the solution
Hampshire County Council Said "Hands Off Our Badgers". You could follow this wise decision!!!
The pilot culls this year were a disgrace. A failure predicted by leading scientific experts. This must not be allowed to happen again.
Do the humand thing, vaccinate not exterminate.
The world is not a bad place, it's what we are doing to it and in it that causes the problems.
These creatures should be protected not persecuted