This is an issue which may well be of concern to the people of Wales in the very near future. At present there is no culling of badgers in Wales and badger vaccination programmes are being successfully carried out.
The Welsh Assembly is, however, under pressure to change this policy, to allow the slaughter of badgers across Wales and to end the vaccination programmes.
This petition (and others across Wales) is being set up to give our badger population protection against these possible changes.
It gives local people the chance to have their say and it gives local councils the chance to protect badgers on council-owned land and to invest in local badger vaccination projects.
To preserve the integrity of this petition please only sign it if you live, work or study in the Ceredigion County Council area.
For details of badger petitions please contact B-R-A-V-E http://www.b-r-a-v-e.co.uk.
We, the undersigned, call on the Ceredigion County 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.
Updates
January 10, 2014
The pressure to change our current vaccination policy feels heavier with each passing week. I am exhausted by the constant need to justify protecting these animals but I refuse to let the momentum fade away.
11 Comments
Tighter animal husbandry and vaccination are the obvious common sense actions. More substantial fencing to prevent badgers from coming in contact with cattle in the short term. It is not only badgers that can carry the disease, do we slaughter everything? I will not be voting for any political party that approves another cull.
The cull so far has cost £2500 for each badger killed, vaccinating would cost £200 - so why is this government wasting so much money? Why is it getting police to stand all night in fields where there is one badger captured in a trap? Not only is this cruel to the badger when it's freezing conditions, it is wrong to make the police do this who should be fighting crime.
SAVE OUR BADGERS!!!!
Inoculation not the destruction of British wildlife ! Please pledge your committal to the badger inoculation programme and ensure that plans that lead to the culling of badgers do not become adopted by Wales. Thank you for leading the way in humane treatments of Bovine Tuberculosis and ensuring badgers have a safe place to live.
Vaccination is obviousely the way forward. Cull in England has beed a farce.
I am so pleased to know that Wales have taken the option of vaccination. Please ensure this continues, and do not allow changes to this policy..
Vaccination is the only sensible, right and compassionate way to go.
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This is an issue which may well be of concern to the people of Wales in the very near future. At present there is no culling of badgers in Wales and badger vaccination programmes are being successfully carried out.
The Welsh Assembly is, however, under pressure to change this policy, to allow the slaughter of badgers across Wales and to end the vaccination programmes.
This petition (and others across Wales) is being set up to give our badger population protection against these possible changes.
It gives local people the chance to have their say and it gives local councils the chance to protect badgers on council-owned land and to invest in local badger vaccination projects.
To preserve the integrity of this petition please only sign it if you live, work or study in the Ceredigion County Council area.
For details of badger petitions please contact B-R-A-V-E http://www.b-r-a-v-e.co.uk.
We, the undersigned, call on the Ceredigion County 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.
Updates
January 10, 2014
The pressure to change our current vaccination policy feels heavier with each passing week. I am exhausted by the constant need to justify protecting these animals but I refuse to let the momentum fade away.
11 Comments
The slaughter of badgers (or 'the cull', as described by the pro-camp) has no scientific basis. The recent lame attempt at such a 'cull' shows the failure of such a programme. Control the disease by vaccination - a proven technique.
Tighter animal husbandry and vaccination are the obvious common sense actions. More substantial fencing to prevent badgers from coming in contact with cattle in the short term. It is not only badgers that can carry the disease, do we slaughter everything? I will not be voting for any political party that approves another cull.
The cull so far has cost £2500 for each badger killed, vaccinating would cost £200 - so why is this government wasting so much money? Why is it getting police to stand all night in fields where there is one badger captured in a trap? Not only is this cruel to the badger when it's freezing conditions, it is wrong to make the police do this who should be fighting crime.
SAVE OUR BADGERS!!!!
Inoculation not the destruction of British wildlife ! Please pledge your committal to the badger inoculation programme and ensure that plans that lead to the culling of badgers do not become adopted by Wales. Thank you for leading the way in humane treatments of Bovine Tuberculosis and ensuring badgers have a safe place to live.
Vaccination is obviousely the way forward. Cull in England has beed a farce.
I am so pleased to know that Wales have taken the option of vaccination. Please ensure this continues, and do not allow changes to this policy..
Vaccination is the only sensible, right and compassionate way to go.
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The slaughter of badgers (or 'the cull', as described by the pro-camp) has no scientific basis. The recent lame attempt at such a 'cull' shows the failure of such a programme. Control the disease by vaccination - a proven technique.