Tag: Badger cull
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Badgers, 1,000 plants and more from Nancy Campbell
A stellar newsletter from the Binfield Badger Group this month. The photo on the cover bears the stark reminder “254,038 badgers have been killed” – all to no purpose whatsoever. No one is held accountable and no doubt no one ever will be. More brightly, two stalwarts of the group created the character of Professor…
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A White-crowned Parrot and other wildlife
A close friend is in the enviable position, in spite of weeks of constant torrential rain, of volunteering at a wildlife rescue in Costa Rica. He has also passed a Teaching English as a Foreign Language course with flying colours. Enchanted by this bird’s visit, he sent me this picture. He noticed that when it…
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Starmer, farmers, foxes, badgers, salmon and more
Sounding and feeling a little like a Roman Catholic penitent at confession, it has been two weeks since my last post. It has been a busy time – my son turned 18 and so there was much celebration, I travelled to the hugely disappointing Spurn Migration Festival near Hull, of which more in a separate…
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Sir Brian May, badgers, farmers and the Countryside Alliance
Sir Brian’s long-awaited programme about the badger cull will be available on the BBC on Friday. For our badger group, campaigners and anyone else who has bothered actually to ensure they are informed before voicing their opinions, I doubt it will contain anything we don’t already know but I think it will be a huge…