Wildlife News for October
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 11:50 am
Cheshire Wildlife Trust Badger Appeal:
Cheshire Wildlife Trust has started an appeal to raise £20,000 to help their vaccination of badgers against bTB - the alternative to culling.
This is from their website:
"The government has recently begun an untested method of culling the UK's largest wild carnivore and the Wildlife Trust's iconic emblem, the badger. 'Free-shooting' has been endorsed as a method of controlling badgers in effort to tackle the disease bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in cattle and could continue and expand for five years.
Cheshire Wildlife Trust needs to raise £20,000 to allow us to vaccinate badgers in areas of high bTB incidence and begin putting in place a ‘firewall’ to stop the spread of the disease across Cheshire.
We are currently on the front line of bTB as it slowly spreads to the north and west - and have a unique chance to demonstrate that culling is not the answer to the bTB problem."
More can be read on the CWT website here: http://www.cheshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/badgerappeal
Cheshire Wildlife Trust has started an appeal to raise £20,000 to help their vaccination of badgers against bTB - the alternative to culling.
This is from their website:
"The government has recently begun an untested method of culling the UK's largest wild carnivore and the Wildlife Trust's iconic emblem, the badger. 'Free-shooting' has been endorsed as a method of controlling badgers in effort to tackle the disease bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in cattle and could continue and expand for five years.
Cheshire Wildlife Trust needs to raise £20,000 to allow us to vaccinate badgers in areas of high bTB incidence and begin putting in place a ‘firewall’ to stop the spread of the disease across Cheshire.
We are currently on the front line of bTB as it slowly spreads to the north and west - and have a unique chance to demonstrate that culling is not the answer to the bTB problem."
More can be read on the CWT website here: http://www.cheshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/badgerappeal