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John Craven and his team filming a report for Country File at Secret World

Don’t miss Country File this Sunday evening (14th June) on BBC ONE at 7pm, as Secret World will be on there. They are broadcasting a report on the proposed cull of badgers as a (misguided) attempt to combat bovine tuberculosis, and as Secret World Charity Founder Pauline Kidner has been at the forefront of the campaign agaisnt this, they came down to film her comments.

Don’t miss it!

Jamie

He's definitely not a badger, he's a bunny!

March 25^th

I can’t believe that the Welsh Assembly is still going ahead with the proposed badger cull. I just hope there are a lot of people out there that will be prepared to show their strength of feeling. The badger was much persecuted in the 20^th century and here we are, meant to be more civilised, and the persecution continues into the 21^st century.

Vikki’s rabbit is doing so well. He is on solids now and looking really great. She has made a very good job of caring for him.

The buzzard went for release today and the aviary is now home to a barn owl that was discovered in a skip. Someone went to put some rubbish in and realised that it was still alive so brought it into us. The barn owl did have blood around its beak so whether someone picked it up and thought it was dead so discarded it in the skip, we will never know. He has recovered well and is now in the enclosure to build up his muscles.

Jonathon, the badger cub has started to drink from a bottle at Continue reading Pauline’s Blog – March 25th & 26th

Badgers like this will be murdered thanks to the decision of the Welsh Assembly

The Welsh Assembly will be committing murder when they go ahead with their badger ‘cull’ in Wales. They are taking on board all the suggestions of the Independent Scientific Group research programme re cattle to cattle transmission and ignoring the proof that badger culling does not work. It shows that they are going to kill badgers just to sweeten the bitter pill for farmers who finally accept that they have much to do to resolve Bovine tb in cattle.

By using all the methods together there will be no proof to show what actions may cause any reduction in the disease that they are expecting to find. This pilot scheme has no scientific value and is heading for disaster. The actions of the Welsh Assembly are feeding the ‘kill badger frenzy’ that the NFU and other farming bodies have continued to fuel since the conclusion of the Random Badger Culling Trial in 2007.

There will be a huge resistance to this experiment and it does nothing to enhance the reputation of the farming fraternity. This experiment is abhorrent to many farmers who are absolutely against the culling of badgers. They believe in the science and will sadly have to sit back and watch this cruel experiment happen. The badger truly is the scapegoat for the Welsh Assembly who have agreed to go forward with the policy of killing badgers in order to have other preventative measures accepted. They obviously don’t have the stamina of Hilary Benn, who despite huge pressures, followed science rather than emotion.

It is the welsh taxpayer who will be paying for this cull. Millions of pounds will be spent on killing badgers that will do nothing for the farming produce and tourism in Wales. Thousands of people will show their feelings through how they spend their money and where they go on holiday. The Welsh Assembly will certainly then realise the true cost of their actions.