Gloucester Badger Protectors

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We’re Hiring!
Supporter Services Officer, Brighton, East Sussex UK

We have a part-time vacancy to work in our small but friendly Brighton office for up to three days a week for the next six months as a Supporter Services Officer

If you have good communication and administration skills, at least one year's work experience and are keen to work for the national charity that helps badgers, take a look at the job description and apply > https://buff.ly/3SOBVxP

24/09/2023

Badgers are being shot! Can you help 😰

09/09/2023

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Cull target information announced today… 💔

12,048 badgers have been killed in Gloucestershire alone since the cull began in 2013. Nationally (England only), it’s an inconceivable 210,555 badgers killed.

Zones 9 and 29 are undergoing supplementary culling, which began on 1st June and will run until 31st January.

Zone 46 will cull for roughly 6-weeks from late August to November.

Get involved with your local badger group! Now more than ever, badgers need our help.

06/08/2023

A group of us went on some badger rescue training this afternoon. So informative and useful.
One important point if you see a Badger on the side of a road please don't assume it's dead it's ALWAYS worth checking and informing Gloucestershire Badger Group.

05/07/2023

Bovine Tb is not self sustaining in badgers
The Cull is financially unviable, ineffective & inhumane.

23/06/2023

Here are some photos of streams that are near Badger setts - they rely on these for their water source. As you can see one is completely dried up the other is drying up 😢 we've gone out tonight and left containers of water out for them. We were told this was being done by a few local residents but it doesn't look like it is so good job we checked...
Please leave water near any setts you know of and some fruits if you can. As you can see they are really struggling.

17/06/2023

Badger culling has not produced a reduction in the prevalence of bovine TB in cattle
The Cull is financially unviable, ineffective & inhumane.

13/06/2023

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13/06/2023

Hi if you know where your local setts are, can you plse leave water down & support feed during this hot weather. Chopped up apples/pears etc, many thanks

10/06/2023

DEVON BADGER CULL - UPDATE❗️

📢 A few days ago, this year's supplementary badger cull kill targets were released, specifying the minimum and maximum numbers of badgers the cull companies should be aiming to kill in each of the cull zones. This confirms that between 1810 and 9692 badgers will lose their lives as a result of the supplementary cull this year, in Devon alone!

These figures are staggering and we urge you to take action. Please see our previous post for information on what you can do locally.

The map below shows our interpretation of what this means for Devon. The first number in each case represents the zone/area number, followed by the minimum and maximum kill target for that zone. Zones highlighted in RED have begun killing and will continue until the end of January 2024. The zone highlighted in ORANGE will be in its second year of intensive culling this year, i.e. only culling in the autumn months.

Contrary to what we posted a week ago, we now believe the zones marked in GREEN have ceased culling altogether. Those zones have completed 4 years of intensive culling, followed by 2 years of supplementary culling. They do not appear in this year's supplementary culling documentation, so we believe they have not applied for a licence (or were not granted a licence) to carry on this year. This means any badger killing of any sort in these zones is illegal. We will continue monitoring setts in these zones and encourage you to do the same. We know a huge amount of illegal persecution has taken place under the cover of the cull, and we don't expect this will stop. ***If you find badger traps anywhere in the green-marked areas, please contact us immediately.

* Please note that the zone boundaries are based on local intelligence-gathering and are not official boundaries. DEFRA have never released the official zone boundaries, so it's impossible to be certain about these.

A bit more on the targets:

The min/max kill targets are supposed to be based on some estimate of the actual badger population size, so as to avoid causing local extinction. However, in most cases the min and max figures are set so far apart, it's clear they're based on nothing but guesswork, with the max set so high it allows for complete extermination and the min set so low it allows them to claim 'success'.

However, in the last round of supplementary culling, a number of zones didn't meet their minimum targets. It's obviously good that fewer badgers were killed in those zones, but it also suggests that badger populations in those zones are now at extremely low levels. Despite this, many of those zones have been permitted to carry on culling this year, because the government's Chief Vet "assures us" that badgers aren't going locally extinct and that the population in those zones might have just been lower than expected to start with... This is an alarmingly nonsensical argument and should worry everyone. It proves that the government have no idea how many badgers there are and - more worryingly - nor do they care. The whole point of setting a minimum was to keep tabs on population sizes to prevent them falling below a viable level!

Please get active locally. Your badgers need you now more than ever! There's more info here on what you can do: https://www.facebook.com/devoncountyhuntsaboteurs/videos/6190645771028742

You can support our cull work by sending us information (Facebook or text to 07717473305) or donating to our fuel fund: www.paypal.me/dchs

10/06/2023

The government has expanded the badger cull by issuing supplementary cull licences to 29 zones in England, with operations beginning immediately.

10/06/2023

Some of the kill figures for the 43 cull zones that are now killing badgers over the next 8 months.

10/06/2023

City of Bristol College are planning to kill two perfectly healthy foxes.

Please contact the college to object. We don't have much time. Please share and inundate them.

Email: [email protected]

Phone : Call 0117 3125000, there is an option to leave a voicemail out of working hours, please leave a polite complaint.

There’s also a live chat option ( Monday to Friday):
https://www.cityofbristol.ac.uk/contact-us/

This is urgent. Please take action and share.
One of the foxes marked to be killed is pictured.

01/06/2023

A study finds cattle-to-cattle transmission is more common than badger-to-cattle transmission.

01/06/2023

01/06/2023

⚠️ June 1st marks the start of the Supplementary badger cull in England

Apparently it's licensed because the first round of intensive killing wasn’t ‘enough’.

Discover DEFRA's price for a badger's life. And why this year's cubs aren't safe from cull zone shooters > https://buff.ly/3MM1POj

01/06/2023

*Starts today in areas of Gloucestershire, including North Cots and Stroud, Tetbury and North Wilts*

29/05/2023

Is anyone from this page checking any badger setts?

29/05/2023

More sett checking this morning. It's getting a bit harder to check due to how overgrown the areas are getting but we managed! We are concerned with how dry the ground is so please think about supporting wildlife by leaving water out or near any setts you are aware of.

18/05/2023

Another evening checking on a few local Badger setts, some of them looked more active then we've seen in a long time, despite a traffic cone being wedged in one of the holes at one of the locations! Unfortunately one of setts we checked on we think has been destroyed 😡 Hopefully they were able to move on somewhere safer.
Badgers are persecuted all year round not just in the cull period so if you would like to help us keep an eye on local setts please give us a private message.

08/05/2023

We like to keep an eye on some setts by using trail cameras. Often we see Foxes as well as Badgers and we were lucky enough to capture some footage of Fox cubs. Look how cute they are ♥ Looks like Mum was keeping a close eye on them.

29/03/2023