TB Cull Consultation - URGENT

[steveR]

DEFRA are asking for views and feedback on the areas earmarked for the continuing TB control badger Cull.

Opportunity to Comment on Supplementary Badger Disease Control Licence applications or expressions of interests - Defra - Citizen Space

This site contains consultations that are run by Defra.

consult.defra.gov.uk

All the Midland counties. Derbyshire, Glos, Oxfordshire, Notts, Shrops, Somerset, Warks.


This has been under the Radar from my perspective, and finishes tomorrow 11.59pm Mon 4th March.

Will take 5 mins of your time..... get and fill it in chaps (and chapesses) NOW.

 

[matthew]

Just driven back from that area. A lot of dead on the road, or in the road. Not a good sign.

Keep the management going - at all costs.

 

[Davy_g]

@Whitepeak

 

[belac]

Just driven back from that area. A lot of dead on the road, or in the road. Not a good sign.

Keep the management going - at all costs.

Is it the time of the year when young male badgers are turfed out of the setts, and run over?

 

[Davy_g]

Think its the tb lesions in they heads drive them to the bright lights.

 

[BredRedHfd]

@rusty

 

[Paddington]

Site seems to be down this morning.

 

[matthew]

Site seems to be down this morning.

I flipped a copy/paste of the document to friend in Leics.
She knew nothing about this 'consultation' at all.

 

[BAF]

Apparently the shropshire star has shared the link online no one round here has heard of it though.

 

[steveR]

I flipped a copy/paste of the document to friend in Leics.
She knew nothing about this 'consultation' at all.

Nor me. I saw about it on the website of the local Rag as indictaed by @BAF!!

One might almost think it was being kept a secret....

 

[steveR]

I flipped a copy/paste of the document to friend in Leics.
She knew nothing about this 'consultation' at all.

I am now wondering where best to follow up the complete lack of "consultation" by DEFRA by not making this more widely known.

One might even think it was a deliberate act....?

Have any of the Badger Control groups been made aware of the survey?

Is it real???

 

[devonbeef]

the sites down now so no way of giving a view , another sick joke from our masters

 

[devonbeef]

the sites down now so no way of giving a view , another sick joke from our masters

in now

 

[Bruce Almighty]

Thanks for heads up I did it last night

 

[steveR]

I pointed out the huge advantages seen for wildlife and ground nesting birds too.

 

[steveR]

Worth a call to the NFU team for your Region who oversaw the cull kickstart??

I am not actually in the cull zone (urban Telford!!) and no longer an NFU member....

 

[Cropper]

Done

 

[matthew]

This was the nub of the direction of travel, as posted on the Defra website:

Natural England has received applications or expressions of interest for a Supplementary Badger Disease Control Licence within the counties of Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Somerset and Warwickshire.

The consultation opened February 19th and closed March 4th.

I would have thought that the cull area leaders / organisers would have known about it - or should have - and encouraged all participants and their neighbours to fill it in.

I did note that within the explanatory blurb, any replies received from people outside the areas listed, would be binned. not taken into account.

 

[BAF]

This was the nub of the direction of travel, as posted on the Defra website:

Natural England has received applications or expressions of interest for a Supplementary Badger Disease Control Licence within the counties of Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Somerset and Warwickshire.

The consultation opened February 19th and closed March 4th.

I would have thought that the cull area leaders / organisers would have known about it - or should have - and encouraged all participants and their neighbours to fill it in.

I did note that within the explanatory blurb, any replies received from people outside the areas listed, would be binned. not taken into account.

Our sector leaders/directors weren't aware of it until I raised it last night.

 

[matthew]

the sites down now so no way of giving a view , another sick joke from our masters

Consultation ended at midnight Monday 04/03.

Our sector leaders/directors weren't aware of it until I raised it last night.

No comment from me on that one, but speaking to friends in the areas listed, neither were they.
Why not?

It's a crazy world when government responsibility for a grade 3 zoonotic pathogen is outsourced to farmers, and then it limps along with these 'consultations' on whether to carry on managing an endemically infected population which also happens to be the poster child for the Wildlife ttrusts.