East Yorkshire Badger Protection Group

SAVE THE BADGER!  ARBED Y BROCH!
1000’s of badgers to be slaughtered FOR NOTHING!

In just a few months time the killing will start in Wales unless we can stop it. The Welsh Assembly will begin a 5-year plan to exterminate badgers in Wales as a measure to cut bovine Tuberculosis (bTB) in cattle.

The cull will start in Pembrokeshire in May 2010, a decision which goes against the findings of the Government’s own Scientific Survey.

Thousands of healthy badgers will be ‘culled’ (the polite word for KILLED), huge amounts of taxpayers money will be squandered and the income from tourism will drop as visitors, disgusted with the cull decision, stay away from the Welsh countryside.  And all for NOTHING!   It will be an immense disaster which will not solve the problem of bTB.

In addition, at this time of the year there will be many badger cubs just emerging from their setts for the first time and if the Welsh Assembly have their way, they will be trapped and shot!

Here in England, Hilary Benn has ruled out a badger cull.  The randomised badger culling trials which killed 11,000 badgers found that only about 10% were infected animals.  The real culprits in spreading bTB are intensified farming practices and the mass movement of cattle around the country.

WE URGE ALL THOSE OF YOU OUT THERE WHO ARE AGAINST THE PROPOSED CULL TO WRITE TO ELIN JONES AT THE WELSH ASSEMBLY (address below) EXPRESSING YOUR DISGUST AT THIS DECISION!

The Campaign to save badgers in Wales is supported by many well-known personalities such as Joanna Lumley, David Attenborough, Twiggy, Jenny Seagrove, Brian May (of Queen)  Professor John Bowen, Chairman of the Independent Scientific Group, Secret World, Advocates for Animals, the Badger Trust and tens of thousands of ‘ordinary’ wildlife lovers all over the UK.

For more information, visit these websites :

Elin Jones,  AM
Minister for Rural Affairs
National Assembly for Wales,
Cardiff Bay
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