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Save Adur District Council's Badgers from Culling

Save Adur District Council's Badgers from Culling

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Started by Norma Kearton 12 years, 9 months ago

This is a national issue which will be of direct concern to the people ofAdur District Council when DEFRA "rolls out" its culling policy in 2014.


The object of the petition is to ensure that Adur District Council's badger population is as safe as possible from slaughter and that the already available injectable badger vaccine against bTB is used in as many cases as possible.


We ask this because we believe the culling policy is inhumane (DEFRA's measurement of "humaneness" is to time the screams of wounded badgers), inefficient (previous culls showed an increase in bTB because of badger movement) and unscientific (the majority of scientific opinion hold that a cull will have "no meaningful result").


To preserve the integrity of this petition please only sign it if you live, work or study in theAdur District Council area.


For details of badger petitions in other parts of England, please contact B-R-A-V-E http://www.b-r-a-v-e.co.uk


We, the undersigned, call on Adur District Council to prohibit the culling of badgers on council-owned land and invest in vaccination programmes locally. We ask this because we believe culling to be inhumane, inefficient and unscientific.

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Reached 100 supporters

December 8, 2013

70 Comments

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Susan Farquharson
12 years ago Featured

The cruel cull trials highlighted that this does not work and in fact spreads the disease. It is limited by the control of cattle movement and vaccination of cattle and badgers. An enormous waste of public money and unspeakably cruel.

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ann parris
12 years ago Featured

i am totally against culling of badgers within the adur , i do not beleive in slaugther of these or any animals.

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Joanne Whitcombe
12 years ago Featured

To see a badger out in its natural habitat is a wonder to see, I to live close to a badger's set leave them alone please! or our children will never see them in their natural eviroment.

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judie dicson
12 years ago Featured

To destroy our wildlife without clear scientific evidence of the damage purported by farmers is inexcusable. Will our grandchildren be warned that badgers are a endangered species?? Farmers in Adur and Worthing should be encouraged instead to vaccinate their cattle.

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Wendy Dowse
12 years ago Featured

Scientists have shown that killing badgers will NOT deal with the bovine TB problem. It is high time that Governments put some money into work to develop a vaccine. There is a strong possibility that cattle have given badgers TB, not the other way round.

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Bill Freeman
12 years ago Featured

Glad to see our district council is supporting this petition. This present administration is simply refusing to listen to the real facts. They must listen to what the real experts and public are saying on the prevention of bovine TB. This and other issues, they are refusing to listen to will mean they can kiss goodbye to a scond term in office.

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Graham Stephenson
11 years ago

This cull is not required look for the real cause of this disease which is spread by cattle and cattle movement.

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Mrs Holmes
12 years ago

Soon there will be nothing left of Britain's wildlife. They are not making Earth anymore and once a species is gone it's gone. Scientific and statistic eveidence shows that culling does not curb TB. Inoculate/vaccinate. Wake up DEFRA and ill informed farmers. Soom you will have to go to Europe to visit the countryside.

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