South and West Badger Protectors – Gloucestershire and Herefordshire editions

This page was last updated on 11 January 2020

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#ThrowbackThursday to the discovery of Badger 200 & Badger 102 in the badger cull zone here in Somerset. Later another badger, Badger 41 was also found.

Tests showed none of these badgers had TB.

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Badger post mortems raise further questions over cull

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Post mortems of badgers killed during a recent cull raise further questions about whether the policy is humane and effective, say wildlife experts. Channel 4 News has exclusive sight of the results.

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More on shooting badgers and the Wild Justice challenge.

“Shooting free-living animals is a messy business, some take a long time to die (the longest observed out of 69 shots observed with thermal imaging equipment until the animal stopped moving was 13 minutes 34 seconds). Although many shot Badgers were seen to die in seconds others were wounded and could not be observed until the point of death (whenever that was) because they ran off into cover or disappeared down setts. Importantly, some Badgers that the shooters assumed they had missed were subsequently found to have been hit but injured.”Badger shooting markavery.info/2020/07/08/shooting-badgers-1/

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Let these numbers sink in.
This is a LOT of suffering.

This video we made follows just one badger monitored during the badger cull. There is no horrible images in this video but it is about 9 minutes long.

Good luck to Wild Justice standing up and speaking out against the dreadfully inhumane free-shooting of badgers!

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Keep your eyes and ears open in this area particularly. Horrific injuries to one of the badgers that was still alive.
Sorry to end the week on a downer but this just reinforces our plea for people to get involved in protecting their local setts.

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'Large numbers' of badgers and deer shot 'illegally' in Somerset

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POLICE are looking into reports of shootings of "a large number" of badgers and deer in Somerset.

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Wild Justice challenges licensing of Badger shooting

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Wild Justice is a not-for-profit company which takes legal cases on behalf of wildlife.

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“These figures suggest that, over seven years of culling, between 6,036 and 10,118 badgers have been potentially wounded by free shooting but not retrieved. This is a lot of badgers suffering...”

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How many badgers do culls really kill? | Rosie Woodroffe

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How many badgers do culls really kill? July 1, 2020July 1, 2020 ~ rosie Yesterday I learned that the organisation Wild Justice is mounting a legal challenge to England’s badger cull, based on the argument that it is inhumane to badgers. I have tended to steer away from the issue of humaneness, b.....

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