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Team badger kicks of “Stop the Cull” campaign with national rally

Written by Emma on 13 September, 2012 : 15:25

On Tuesday (11h September) afternoon, Team Badger consisting of the League Against Cruel Sports, Save Me, the RSPCA, Humane Society International (HSI), and a host of local campaign groups, held a national rally against the badger cull in Bristol. 

Over 200 people gathered on College Green to join the rally, show their opposition to the cull and listen to the speakers. Many attendees came in costume for the best dressed badger competition held afterwards, with children and grown men alike having their faces painted throughout the event. 

Chaired by the League’s Chief Executive, Joe Duckworth, the rally had a wealth of speakers including: Queen guitarist and founder of

Save Me Brian May, Gavin Grant of the RSPCA, Steve Jones a former dairy farmer, Graham Godwin Pearson of the Bow Group and Mark Jones from Humane Society International. During the rally the unfortunate news broke that The Badger Trust had lost its Judicial Review Appeal, this however does not mean the fight has been lost. Team Badger is working hard to spread the word even further to stop this inhumane and unscientific approach to reduce the impact of Bovine TB. 

We are also awaiting HSI UK’s complaint hearing at the Council of Europe’s Bern Convention on Monday 17th September. As signatories to Bern, the UK is obliged to keep the badger population out of danger, an obligation which is completely contradicted by the planned badger culls.  

If you care about badgers it is IMPERATIVE that you act now  

Please help us to persuade the Government to reconsider the decision made and encourage them to follow in the Welsh Assembly's footsteps, implementing a vaccination programme with increased levels of testing and improved bio security – a more effective way to tackle Bovine TB long term. 

Ways to urge the Government to STOP THE CULL  

Sign the petition (100,000 signatures are needed for the issue to be discussed in the House of Commons) 

Tweet the Government @Number10gov using #StoptheCull and #TeamBadger hash tags 

Write to the Prime Minister here and tell him why you are opposed to the badger cull

Share, tweet, retweet, post, blog and keep up to date with all the news via the dedicated Facebook  page and microsite www.stopthecull.com

Watch The Badger Trust’s video featuring Sir David Attenborough and HSI’s featuring Bill Oddie 


Badgers need our help, please help us to give them a voice, the louder our collective voice, the harder it’s going to be for the cull to go ahead.

18 comments

Joanna Hardeman
Please stop this completely unnecessary cull. There's absolutely no logic to the cull. The money would be far better spent on protecting the voiceless.
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mrs susan lester
i can not understand how going hunting to kill innocent animals is a fun thing to do it is cruel and inhumane, and it has got to stop killing innocent animals for no reason at all i can not see why people think it is fun and a good sport, football is sport not klling innocent animals.
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Judy Scott
There is a word missing in the petition which reads The method of free-shooting badgers could cause severe to many thousands of badgers.
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Louise Sharpe
This needs to be stopped it is not the fault of the badger and this has been scientifically proven .
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ANGELA BROWN
PLEASE STOP THE CULL
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bruce bainbridge
For Gods sake WHAT are we doing ?? Stop this madness now and leave the badgers alone !!!!
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PETER BROWN
CRUEL WAY TO DIE
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Jack Cox
Having just watched Brian May on BBC this morning and subsequently signed the anti-cull petition, I wondered why vaccinating badgers is so difficult. On the Continent they greatly reduced, if not stopped, the incidence of rabies by leaving bait containing vaccine throughout the countryside, including dropping by air. On a small island like ours is it too difficult to place vaccinated bait around badger setts and fight TB like that? An argument often used by farmers is infected badgers urinate on grass which is then eaten by cows. What about already infected cows urinating on grass which is then eaten by other cows? Or does that not count?
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Anne Inns
I think this cull is totally unnessasary. Most farmers have their cattle transfered from elsewhere, which is the problem.. This is just a licence for people who like shooting to kill the badgers.
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Sense
A "national rally" attended by a staggering 200 people! The stuff dreams are made of.
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HELEN BRILUS
Please listen STOP the cull NOW. The government need to listen to the facts and not just take action to something they do not understand or even have the evidence to prove that by culling is the answer. The answer is vaccination. THIS IS INHUMAN AND MURDER!
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Alan Watts
Maybe the public should start buying less dairy products.
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Marta Falco Ainley
have been spending all my time handing out our Gloucestershire Against Badger Shooting. There are a lot of people doing things towards stopping this terrible culling and, as usual, doing battle with this government to do the right thing. I feel furious about it, I live in the Forest of Dean too and all the experts say culling isn't effective in helping to stop the spread of bTB and in facts helps to spread it. I've read up on the subject and I believe that DEFRA know it doesn't help but want to appease farmers. disgusting way for a government to carry on.
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brian may
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Eric Oliver
you guys are such morons, "you dont see the logic" badgers are pests who contribute nothing to society, cattle provide people with an income. we are not trying to rid england of badgers, we are simply trying to control tb. when a herd is slaughtered the farmer needs compensation for his herd, that comes from your taxes. all you are doing is putting a badgers life above a cows life. i would like to see some of your reactions if you were to be present on a farm that is having 60 cows lined up and killed one by one because a badger has passed on bovine tb to one of them. and you can all rest assured that badgers will continue to be shot on farms in attempt to control tb, no matter how much of a fuss you idiots kick up
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S. Kent
The government should be spending their resources on developing a vaccine for cows. After the foot and mouth crisis, previously uninfected areas of the UK became infected with TB, through cattle movement to restock areas. Now thats irresponsible ! Where was the routine testing then ?The badgers didn't shift from their areas, so cattle and the cattle dealers were to blame.
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Elizabeth
Do not cull the Badgers. Surely, it is better to Vaccinate the cattle. At least the farmers will then know their herds will be OK. Common sense really/ The Government need to listen to what most of the people want for a change and not what they think.
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Spheh
It's interesting that you've never seen a bgader in the wild. Twice I've been face to face with a bgader. Once while deer hunting which is scary to say the least. I moved to the ground after sitting in a portable stand for a few hours because I was uncomfortable. After finding a fallen log and getting comfortable I turned to my right to see a big old bgader hissing at me. My gun was pointed the other way and I didn't move a muscle until he slowly backed away. I immediately went the other way and never returned to that particular stand. It was moved the following year. I also saw one while on a motorcycle with my husband. We were traveling some trails slowly looking for blueberries and came across a bgader hole. We stopped to look and he soon greeted us with hisses. Now we have one mounted with a bobcat my husband trapped one year. It's a beautiful mount and hopefully the closest I'll ever be to a bgader again. Those claws up close and personal are like looking down the barrel of a gun.
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