DEFRA announces new TB badger control zones

[JP1]

News story
2019 Badger control licences announced
Badger control licences published by Natural England
Published 11 September 2019
From:Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and George Eustice MP

Natural England has today published licences for areas that will undertake badger control operations within the High Risk and Edge areas of England this autumn.
This includes the reauthorisation of licences for 29 existing areas alongside licences for 11 additional areas.
This operational publication is a continuation of the long term strategy to tackle the animal disease Bovine TB which was published in April 2014.
Farming Minister George Eustice said:

Bovine TB remains the greatest animal health threat to the UK, costing taxpayers over £100 million every year as well as causing devastation and distress for hard-working farmers and rural communities.
There is no single measure that will provide an answer to beating this disease. That is why we have always been committed to a multi-pronged approach including proactive badger control as well as other tools such as tighter cattle controls, improved biosecurity and badger vaccination.
Our strategy in combatting the disease now has an opportunity to look at different methods as part of our response to the Godfray Review. We will fully respond to this review in the near future.

All applications received were carefully assessed by Natural England to ensure that each cull company has suitable arrangements and plans in place to carry out an operation that is safe, effective and humane.

 

[som farmer]

News story
2019 Badger control licences announced
Badger control licences published by Natural England
Published 11 September 2019
From:Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and George Eustice MP

Natural England has today published licences for areas that will undertake badger control operations within the High Risk and Edge areas of England this autumn.
This includes the reauthorisation of licences for 29 existing areas alongside licences for 11 additional areas.
This operational publication is a continuation of the long term strategy to tackle the animal disease Bovine TB which was published in April 2014.
Farming Minister George Eustice said:

All applications received were carefully assessed by Natural England to ensure that each cull company has suitable arrangements and plans in place to carry out an operation that is safe, effective and humane.

didn't boris stop 1 new area ? something to do with his girlfriend ?

 

[Henarar]

didn't boris stop 1 new area ? something to do with his girlfriend ?

Is she a badger?

 

[rusty]

Is she a badger?

No but she is friends with Dominic Dyer, head of Badger Trust and he put a social media post out saying he had personally hand delivered a letter to her to give to Boris. Letter was signed by the usual knobs (Packham etc) with a load of twaddle about Badger vaccination in Derbyshire , the vast majority of it not in the proposed cull zone.
Only found out less than 72 hours before cull due to start. All traps that were out have had to be brought back in.

 

[som farmer]

No but she is friends with Dominic Dyer, head of Badger Trust and he put a social media post out saying he had personally hand delivered a letter to her to give to Boris. Letter was signed by the usual knobs (Packham etc) with a load of twaddle about Badger vaccination in Derbyshire , the vast majority of it not in the proposed cull zone.
Only found out less than 72 hours before cull due to start. All traps that were out have had to be brought back in.

lets hope its a one off.
we have started, bit more wary this year. But we have an abundance of tame foxes about, up to 2 or 3 weeks ago, we would see hardly any, with night sites, and really we have been right on top of them for 2 years, hardly a one, shot 5 this week, very 'tame'. We had this 15 years ago, shooting multiples a night, mainly on 1 hill, turned out, there was a truck coming from Bristol ? turning off main road, little side road, right next to the above hill. Not a lot to do with cull, but does any one else have this ?

 

[Samcowman]

Had this with foxes a few years ago a heap of tame ones appeared we think they got released on the airfield next door. Local guy said he was out lamping and they were walking up to his truck. Cruel on them dropping them off in strange countryside.

 

[tinsheet]

Defo get released, neighbour shot one with 3 legs, still had the scars and clip marks were it was operated on!

 

[som farmer]

Had this with foxes a few years ago a heap of tame ones appeared we think they got released on the airfield next door. Local guy said he was out lamping and they were walking up to his truck. Cruel on them dropping them off in strange countryside.

not only me then, can't think of anything worse than catching urban foxes, then releasing them in a completely different environment, really cruel, oh, sorry, they were rescuing them !!!!!!!!!

 

[Bruce Almighty]

lets hope its a one off.
we have started, bit more wary this year. But we have an abundance of tame foxes about, up to 2 or 3 weeks ago, we would see hardly any, with night sites, and really we have been right on top of them for 2 years, hardly a one, shot 5 this week, very 'tame'. We had this 15 years ago, shooting multiples a night, mainly on 1 hill, turned out, there was a truck coming from Bristol ? turning off main road, little side road, right next to the above hill. Not a lot to do with cull, but does any one else have this ?

It used to be a regular problem, I think they were caught in Coventry. The keeper shot a lot of them, I guess they found somewhere else to release them ?

 

[som farmer]

It used to be a regular problem, I think they were caught in Coventry. The keeper shot a lot of them, I guess they found somewhere else to release them ?

looks like they've come back.

 

[steveR]

Defo get released, neighbour shot one with 3 legs, still had the scars and clip marks were it was operated on!

Saw exactly the same 2 winters ago here. Fox was as fit a flea, so a recent release...

 

[steveR]

No but she is friends with Dominic Dyer, head of Badger Trust and he put a social media post out saying he had personally hand delivered a letter to her to give to Boris. Letter was signed by the usual knobs (Packham etc) with a load of twaddle about Badger vaccination in Derbyshire , the vast majority of it not in the proposed cull zone.
Only found out less than 72 hours before cull due to start. All traps that were out have had to be brought back in.

FFS! Words fail me....

 

[steveR]

News story
2019 Badger control licences announced
Badger control licences published by Natural England
Published 11 September 2019


All applications received were carefully assessed by Natural England to ensure that each cull company has suitable arrangements and plans in place to carry out an operation that is safe, effective and humane.

Well, by all reports, the Cull is working efficiently and has worked well where completed, but at what a crazy cost and stupid levels of bureaucratic hoops to do what is a relatively simple process in all honesty... But at least its being done!

 

[matthew]

No but she is friends with Dominic Dyer, head of Badger Trust and he put a social media post out saying he had personally hand delivered a letter to her to give to Boris. Letter was signed by the usual knobs (Packham etc) with a load of twaddle about Badger vaccination in Derbyshire , the vast majority of it not in the proposed cull zone.
Only found out less than 72 hours before cull due to start. All traps that were out have had to be brought back in.

Boris’s latest squeeze is a patron of this organisation, as is our SoS Theresa Villiers. The feed is peppered by stuff from Dom Dyer ( badger trust) and lots of guff about vaccination.

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