Contact Dorset for Badger and Bovine Welfare

14 April 2018 Badger Contact other areas 0

Dorset has many groups covering the Dorset zones.

For Dorset for Badger and Bovine Welfare

email dorsetbbw@gmail.com

or visit the group’s Facebook page or website.

Other Facebook pages

Dorset Against The Badger Cull

South Dorset Against The Badger Cull

For Dorset Badger Patrol email dorsetbp@gmail.com or visit the group’s Facebook page.

Facebook Posts

Somerset Against The Badger Cull

To all those giving up their days off, nights in the warm at home, time with family and friends - WE THANK YOU. It’s been another exhausting few weeks and it’s not over yet.
Last push now, to do what we all can to show that wildlife matters...badgers matter.

Because if we don’t, who will?

📷 credit: Richard Peters. Taken from his ebook ‘Back Garden Safari’ ... See MoreSee Less

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Somerset Against The Badger Cull shared Somerset Badger Patrol's post.

SBP doing their stuff, raising awareness and winning hearts and minds across Somerset.Thank you #Glastonbury for your friendly and enthusiastic support on our walk around the town last night.

Later on, one of our patrols was asked by the police where the other patrol was, "The one that obstructed defra"! As we do nothing but peacefully walk the footpaths, this was obviously a win-win and demonstrates why our patrols are so important. Patrols save badgers lives.

Thanks to the new people who left their comfort zone and came out with us tonight. We are looking forward to meeting more of you over the next few nights.

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Somerset Against The Badger Cull shared Stop the cull's post.

Something else practical that everyone can do. There will still be many of us out during the bad weather this weekend, so if you can’t get out, please consider contacting NE for us instead. Thank you.Storm Callum is hitting the uk, will Natural England enforce the cage trapping guidelines and put a halt on all cage trap killing?

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Somerset Against The Badger Cull

Something everyone can do, if you can’t get out to join Somerset Badger Patrol is to ask your MP what they are doing to help British wildlife and restore our environment.
Every MP has now been sent a copy of the #PeoplesManifestoForWildlife so it would be good to get as many people as possible to ask for feedback from their local MP here in #Somerset

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A Peoples Manifesto for Wildlife

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A Peoples Manifesto for Wildlife

4 days ago ·

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Somerset Against The Badger Cull shared Somerset Badger Patrol's post.

Nothing stops the SBP!Last night's patrol was in a very vulnerable area. As the police turned up at the beginning of our patrol, we were able to reassure them that, in response to their question, the area also has a network of footpaths and lanes ... the lay-out of which we are all very familiar with.
So hip-hip hooray to all those that turned out at short notice last night. Flexibility is key .. so keep those evenings free!! ... See MoreSee Less

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Somerset Against The Badger Cull shared Devon County Hunt Saboteurs's post.

POLICE ACCUSED OF PROVIDING PRIVATE SECURITY TO INFLUENTIAL BADGER KILLING FARMER.

All across Devon badger protectors have been out for the last 5 weeks, night after night, doing what they can to monitor and protest the killing taking place in their countryside. This is their right as citizens of a democracy. The role of Devon and Cornwall Police, in their own words, is to “facilitate peaceful protest” during the six weeks of culling. They claim that there is no bias towards either side.

How is it then that in one small corner of mid-Devon one particular farmer seems to be able to call in huge police resources to prevent peaceful protests and the monitoring of his attempts to wipe out the badgers on his farm? So much so that he has numerous police stationed at his farm every night despite the fact that the cull is taking place on hundreds of other farms right across Devon.

Peaceful badger patrollers sitting on public roads near the farm are being constantly harassed by police. One solitary 20 year old female sitting in her car in the dark at 12:30am was intimidated and made to feel uncomfortable for so long by 2 male police officers a few nights ago that she was forced to leave the area and had to return with her father to ensure that she was safe.

Police have deployed drones around the farm in an effort to allow cull contractors to shoot and escort the shooters to and from the fields and farm every night. Each night officers are seen wandering the fields with torches and sophisticated night-vision and thermal imaging equipment in their effort to find anything to pin on the badger protectors. Up to 7 police vehicles, including unmarked 4X4s have been protecting the farm at any given time. But even with the use of drones they have been unable to find any individuals taking part in illegality. In their desperation they are now using a new tactic of issuing Section 42 exclusion orders to badger protectors that they find in the vicinity. So a one square mile fortress has basically been set up around the farm. 2 nights ago 5 badger protectors were issued with these orders excluding them from the farm and public roads for 1 month.

Crazily, even the police liason for the badger protectors, a 56 year old healthcare professional, who has worked with the police as their go-between during the Devon culls for the last 3 years, was also slapped with an exclusion order when dressed in her high vis, she visited the area for only the second time this year, to check on the welfare of 2 elderly badger patrollers sitting in their car.

Suprised by this extreme and disproportionate policing, badger campaigners looked into who owns this farm. How does just one farm have enough influence to warrant so many police resources and massive use of taxpayers money? It seems that if you are Chair of Devon National Farmers Union you might just have that level of influence.

twitter.com/nfusouthwest/status/997386204113985537?s=21

www.ibegin.com/directory/uk/devon/exeter/s-d-f-molineux-amp-partners/

This farm in Silverton, listed on the exclusion order, seems to be a hotbed of NFU and police at the moment.

You might not be able to get a copper in Devon to visit you when you have been burgled but if you are Chair of Devon NFU and have failed to kill as many badgers as you intended, it seems that there are plenty of police resources available. This looks very much like police operating as private security to badger killers at the behest of the rich and powerful! We wonder how the average farmer feels about this?

Please do contact Devon and Cornwall Police yet again to let them know how you feel. Please share and like far and wide.

email: 101@devonandcornwall.pnn.police.uk or 101@dc.police.uk

PCC: opcc@devonandcornwall.pnn.police.uk

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