Wildlife Trusts to vaccinate in pilot badger cull areas
Media release Immediate: 19 January 2012 Wildlife Trusts to vaccinate in pilot badger cull areas Local Wildlife Trusts will pursue badger vaccination as a means of tackling bovine TB in the pilot...
View ArticleOur Response to the Badger Vaccination Programme
Press Release – For Immediate Release The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales welcomes the decision of John Griffiths to pursue vaccination of badgers in the control of bovine TB this summer. This...
View ArticleWales leads fight against bovine TB
On Tuesday 20th March 2012, John Griffiths, Minister for the Environment and Sustainable Development at the Welsh Government, announced his government’s next steps under their programme to eradicate...
View ArticleBadger “Cull” April 2012
On Tuesday 20th March, John Griffiths, Minister for the Environment and Sustainable Development at the Welsh Government, announced his government’s next steps under their programme to eradicate bovine...
View ArticleWhy Vaccinate Badgers?
Since the last edition a few people have asked us about the rationale behind badger vaccination, so we thought this newsletter would be a good opportunity to look in a bit more detail at why […]
View ArticleBadger vaccination is underway!
The new policy of badger vaccination in north Pembrokeshire is now entering delivery phase, with the Environment Minister, John Griffiths, confirming in recent days that the vaccination programme is...
View ArticleLatest Badger News
With badger vaccination already underway in the Intensive Action Area (IAA) in Wales, the spotlight this month has turned on England, where the High Court has decided not to quash the Coalition...
View ArticleLatest on Badgers August 2012
Over the last month, things have been moving apace in both England and Wales, with badger vaccination well underway here in south west Wales and a further legal challenge to plans to cull in England. […]
View ArticleBadger Cull E-Petition
As many of you will already know, on 11th September the Badger Trust lost its appeal against the judgment given by Lord Justice Ouseley on 12th July in respect of the Judicial Review the Badger […]
View ArticleLatest Badger Cull News
The last few weeks have seen an interesting turn of events with regards to the badger cull; after a week which saw over 150,000 people sign an e-petition demanding a debate on the cull in […]
View ArticleLiver fluke soars to disrupt bovine TB test results
Press release from the Badger Trust As MPs prepare to debate badger killing next Thursday (October 25th) two developments show how bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is rooted in cattle. · At least a fifth of...
View ArticleBadger Appeal update
As culling of badgers starts in England, Wales has thankfully taken a different route. Currently badgers are being vaccinated across Pembrokeshire in order to prevent the spread of the disease. We have...
View ArticleWhy vaccinate badgers against TB?
Why vaccinate badgers against TB? It is not a cure, there are no field studies to show how effective it will be and isn’t it just as expensive as culling? We will attempt to answer […]
View ArticleBadger sculpture named after celebrity anti-cull campaigner, Queen’s Brian May
Following the installation of the new Badger sculpture at Parc Slip Nature Reserve, the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales, who own and manage the nature reserve just outside Bridgend in south...
View ArticleBadger Vaccination update
Whilst the controversial badger cull pilots in England appear set to continue, we felt it was time to review what’s been happening in the management of bovine TB Wales. It’s a chance to review where […]
View ArticleBadger Vaccination Resumes in Llandeilo
Work has just begun on the year two programme of its five year plan to vaccinate the badgers in our Castle Woods nature reserve, Llandeilo. The steep woodlands at Castle Woods nature reserve are home […]
View ArticleBadger vaccination project to be suspended
Deputy Minister for Farming and Food, Rebecca Evans, has announced that due to a global shortage of the BCG vaccine, she has suspended sourcing of BCG for badger vaccination in Wales. The World Health...
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