Badger campaigners call on Gloucestershire politicians to prevent culling on council land
Anti-badger cull campaigners are calling on politicians to help protect the animals.
The trial cull, postponed late last year, will now go ahead from June 1, including in parts of the Forest of Dean and west Gloucestershire.
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It is hoped the cull will help erdicate bovine TB but the issue is hugely controversial.
Gloucestershire Against Badger Shooting (GABS) is asking each political party in the county to sign up to a pledge making council-owned land a no-cull zone.
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Jeanne Berry, a spokesman for GABS, said: "We know that local people are overwhelmingly against a badger cull in the county and we are asking Gloucestershire people to contact their council candidates to pledge for change.
"The county council elections in May are the first chance for people to have their say on this cull at the ballot box."
But Jeremy Hilton, leader of Gloucestershire's Liberal Democrats, said he was disappointed by the move.
He said: "Liberal Democrats on Gloucestershire County Council have led the opposition to the culling of badgers, whether in Gloucestershire or elsewhere.
"In 2012 we proposed two motions for debate at Shire Hall opposing the killing of badgers. I am disappointed that the pressure group GABS have made this a party political issue.
"They were told that the Liberal Democrat manifesto would have a clear policy opposing the culling of badgers in our county."
5 Comments
by fischadler
Wednesday, March 06 2013, 2:40PM
“With the anti cull petition now approaching 173,000 signatures, by far the biggest on the governments website and the expected costs of the cull likely to spiral out of control, I think it is time the government pulled the plug on the whole scheme. They may get some of the farmers to vote for them at the next election but are they so stupid that they cant see how many votes from the general public they will lose over this issue.”
by Hareymary
Tuesday, March 05 2013, 9:39AM
“This confirmed badgerist (for information, this has become an honourable title), wishes to say that there is absolutely no scientific evidence that a culling policy will do anything other than spread the disease further. What, then, is this government doing proceeding with this madness? The answer is simple and political: Farmers traditionally vote Conservative and a few support the LibDems.”
by TimMessanger
Tuesday, March 05 2013, 2:02AM
“If any of the badgerists (red arrow time) looked at the areas they were going to cull the were boundaries that would hugely reduce badger movements in and out of the areas, now the areas appear to have changed this will probably cause the trial cull to be non conclusive and so they will be repeated until the results are conclusive. If you are correct and the cull will have no affect then all you have done is become complicit in the murder of many thousands of badgers. If you are wrong you have done nothing more than cost the tax payer a huge amount of cash and caused cows and farmers a huge amount of suffering!”
by grannyonline1
Monday, March 04 2013, 6:49PM
“"it is hoped the cull with help eradicate bovine TB" The proposed cull has NOTHING to so with eradicating TB,,it is to test the effectivness of freeshooting badgers,NOTHING to do with TB.Basicly its target practise in the dark!!”
by Jude177
Monday, March 04 2013, 1:55PM
“"Let's hope common sense and science prevails-a cull will be an unmitigated disaster all round-bad for badgers(understatement!), bad for farmers, tourism, business-with over 90% of the public against a cull, policing and costs involved- a cull anywhere is undeliverable-and the governmnent knows this. What we all fail to understand is how the farmers themselves have been so duped-they need the public on their sides now more than ever..and whilst we all just brace ourselves for this mis-guided, and doomed policy we are not getting on with the measures actually needed-vaccination of badgers, improved bio-security and cattle movement and pressure to find a workable cattle vaccination.Badgers are the scapegoat for the failures and inaction of a contemptible and disingenuous government-and so too are the farmers themselves. Jude Walker"”