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June 6, 2013
Battle to Protect Our Badgers Goes On
With huge opposition to the badger cull from scientists, animal welfare groups, the public and parliamentarians, the battle to protect badgers went on despite the narrow defeat of a political motion in the House of Commons.
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May 31, 2013
Working to Protect Badgers
Since the badger culls were postponed in October 2012, HSI/UK has been working hard to turn that postponement into a permanent reprieve for badgers.
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May 31, 2013
Myth-Busting Badger Cull Claims
Many of the claims made to justify the misguided and potentially devastating badger culls are not only unscientific but also dangerously inaccurate. Team Badger's report exposes and counters these myths.
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May 30, 2013
DEFRA Finally Reveals Shocking Details of Badger Cull Suffering
With badger culling in England potentially just weeks or even days away, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs admitted that some animals were likely to be wounded but not immediately killed, with injured animals expected to experience massive bleeding, hyperventilation and shock, and some eventually dying of secondary infection or starvation.
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May 30, 2013
Measuring “Humaneness” During the Badger Culls
HSI/UK believes that information about how DEFRA plans to measure humaneness during badger culling, and which could sound the death knell for tens of thousands of badgers, should be made public.
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March 19, 2013
Pilot Badger Killing Likely to Proceed This Summer
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson confirmed that authorisation had been issued by Natural England for the two pilot badger culls, in Somerset and in west Gloucestershire.
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October 29, 2012
For the Badgers' Sake, Let's Ensure This Stay of Execution Becomes a Permanent End to the Cull
Now that the government has announced a postponement of the badger cull and Members of Parliament have debated and voted overwhelmingly against the cull taking place, HSI/UK has pledged to work to ensure that this stay of execution becomes a permanent end to the cull.
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October 23, 2012
England’s Badgers Safe for Now, But We Must Kill the Cull for Good
As environment secretary Owen Paterson announced a postponement of the government's badger cull plans until next year, Mark Jones, HSI's executive director, pledged to continue to work until culling plans are ended for good.
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October 14, 2012
Badger Cull: Cruelty in the Killing Fields
A group of veterinarians, including HSI UK’s Executive Director Mark Jones, has written an open letter Owen Paterson, Secretary of State at the UK’s Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, to express their concern that the slaughter of badgers will result in widespread animal suffering.
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September 19, 2012
Working Together to Help Protect Badgers
HSI/UK has joined with a number of other leading UK-based animal welfare organisations to form Team Badger. The group, which includes the League Against Cruel Sports, RSPCA, Save Me and others, is working together to stop this needless slaughter of badgers.
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September 17, 2012
Dismay and Sadness at Badger Cull Go-Ahead as Europe’s Bern Convention Meets to Discuss Possible Breach
Humane Society International/UK is extremely disappointed by the news that the first licence to slaughter badgers in the south west of England has been issued today, for the West Gloucestershire pilot area.
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September 7, 2012
Former Government Scientific Adviser and Wildlife Experts Slam Badger Cull as Unscientific and Horrific in New HSI UK Campaign Video
Large numbers of badgers targeted in the government’s proposed cull could be left maimed and bleeding to death and even disappear altogether from large parts of England, claim expert scientists and naturalists appearing in a new campaign video for HSI/UK.
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August 31, 2012
Government Urged to Delay on Badger Cull Whilst EU Bern Convention Considers HSI UK Challenge
A host of respected wildlife experts, conservationists, broadcasters and celebrities have written an open letter to DEFRA Minister Caroline Spelman calling on the government to postpone the proposed slaughter of English badgers.
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July 12, 2012
Badger Cull Court Decision Is A Devastating Blow for Badgers
HSI/UK is extremely disappointed that the Badger Trust’s Judicial Review proceedings have failed to halt the UK government’s proposed English badger slaughter. HSI/UK’s Bern Convention complaint is now the badgers’ last hope.
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June 5, 2012
Eminent Zoologists Issue Warning Re: Badgers
Eminent scientists Christl Donnelly of Imperial College London and Rosie Woodroffe of the Institute of Zoology published a stark warning in the journal Nature that it would be impossible for farmers to achieve DEFRA’s target of killing at least 70 percent of badgers without risking the total eradication of local populations.
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May 29, 2012
MEPs Urge Fair Hearing For England’s Badgers
HSI/UK thanks the European Parliament’s Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals for writing to the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (Bern Convention) urging it to give serious consideration to a complaint lodged by the group against the UK government’s proposals to license the slaughter of badgers as part of its strategy to control tuberculosis in cattle in England.
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March 20, 2012
HSI/UK Welcomes Wales’ Decision to Abandon Badger Cull
A statement confirming that the Welsh Assembly had dropped plans to slaughter badgers in favour of a five-year vaccination scheme was welcome news for badgers, cattle and farmers alike.
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February 28, 2012
Bill Oddie and MPs Support HSI's Official Complaint Against Badger Cull
Conservationist Bill Oddie and MPs from all sides of the House showed their support their support for a formal complaint to the Bern Convention against the British government’s proposed slaughter of badgers.
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January 19, 2012
Badger Kill Zones Revealed: Local Badgers Could Be Wiped Out, Warns HSI UK
HSI UK reacted strongly to DEFRA’s announcement of England’s pilot badger cull zones, warning that local badger clans risked being completely eradicated in these areas.
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December 14, 2011
DEFRA’s English Badger Cull Decision Breaches Bern Convention, Says HSI UK
HSI UK submitted a formal complaint to the Bern Convention against the UK in response to the announcement by DEFRA Minister for Agriculture, Caroline Spelman, that the government would proceed with two pilot studies to slaughter badgers in England.
