Hunting is a stain on our nation 🇬🇧

🎨 ben_cameron

🚫 #stopthecull 🦡

It’s a rare step toward addressing the real
root cause—#HabitatLoss not #predators.

Learn more in the BIV’s May 20th article by Stefan Labbe titled: “B.C. Pauses Logging in Threatened Caribou Habitat.”

And keep speaking up—real recovery starts with protecting old-growth forests, not gunning wolves from #helicopters.

- Pacific Wild

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https://www.biv.com/news/bc-timber-sales-pauses-logging-in-threatened-caribou-habitat-10683452

#Wolves #ProtectOurWildlife #PacificWild #StopTheCull

BC Timber Sales pauses logging in threatened caribou habitat

The pause applies to new logging investments in the Revelstoke-Shuswap region, where the Columbia North caribou herd is losing habitat faster than it's replaced

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The petition response even admits the evidence doesn't support it, that it is not helping, and it is a waste of money, but #farmers are too thick to understand this and #UKGov is committed to "Something must be done, this is something, ergo we must do this" mode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vidzkYnaf6Y

#BadgerCull #Badgers ##StopTheCull #UKpol #Politics #YesMinister

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700317

A politicians logic

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Okay, to the #UKGov has responded to the #StopTheCull petition, and basically said that the reason they are carrying on with the #BadgerCull is that they think #Farmers are too thick to know how not to cull badgers.

They prettied up the language, but the gist is farmers are too thicko to work out how not to shoot things.

#VeryNormalIsland #UKpol #UKPolitics

Hunting is a stain on our nation 🇬🇧

🎨 ben_cameron

🚫 #stopthecull 🦡

🗓 Published 18/03/22

There is no justification for killing any more badgers. It's time to bring this unscientific, inhumane and unnecessary badger culling policy to an immediate and permanent end.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-60791793

Expensive badger cull should be ended, study says

Researchers claim the study shows why the government should "immediately end" the cull.

🗓 Published 16/02/22

"They were authorised to cull up to 70% of badgers but if they don’t know how many there are at the start, they could be culling all of them"

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/badger-cull-kill-licence-zone-tb-defra-b2016529.html

Badger cull areas ‘expanded by stealth and without consultation’ last year

Exclusive: Widening eight zones led to up to 5,000 extra deaths, it’s estimated

The Independent

🗓 Published 11/02/22

Badgers: They seem to have the unusual status of being one of the most loved British mammals in fiction, but one of the most persecuted in the real world.

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https://theconversation.com/why-badgers-are-unfairly-demonised-and-what-we-can-do-to-help-173957

Why badgers are unfairly demonised – and what we can do to help

Badgers are shy and nocturnal animals. It’s time to challenge false perceptions and end the cruelty towards this iconic mammal.

The Conversation

🗓 Published 08/11/21

The results of two government-commissioned studies into the number of dead badgers infected with bovine TB (bTB) confirm that badgers are being scapegoated for the spread of the disease.

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https://www.surgeactivism.org/articles/newly-released-government-studies-show-fallacy-of-badger-cull

Newly released government studies show fallacy of badger cull — Surge | Creative Non-Profit for Animal Rights

The results of two government-commissioned studies into the number of dead badgers infected with bovine TB (bTB) have finally been released, confirming that badgers are being scapegoated for the spread of the disease.

Surge | Creative Non-Profit for Animal Rights

The Badger Cull and Bovine TB 🐄

▫️What is bovine tuberculosis?
▫️Why are badgers being scapegoated?
▫️How are badgers culled?
▫️How are cattle tested for bTB?
▫️Are badgers still being culled?

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