Binfield Badger Group

Welcome to the Group's web site and our work to improve the protection of badgers, not just in Binfield, but across Berkshire.  It is only a simple site, but you will find links to many sites that contain lots of information on badgers, their need for protection and what you can do to help.

Use the buttons on the left hand side to navigate your way around this web site.  Please bookmark this page and visit again for updated information on meetings and new Binfield Badger Group newsletters.

See Meetings page for details of our next meeting on 17 May 2012

See the video on the About Us page  - this video was produced to highlight the need to protect not just the sett, but the access pathways to foraging areas.

Good news from Binfield - There are four cubs at the main sett this year.  Unusually there are two sows that have both had two cubs at one sett.  Normally only the dominant sow will have cubs.  This means we have at least three adults and four cubs at the moment.  Do you want to sponsor a cub and suggest a name?  If you do, just email us with your chosen name and pledge.   You can see the badgers on the new "Videos" page.

URGENT NOTICE

PLEASE, PLEASE help us to stop the culling of badgers. The English and Welsh Governments are considering how badgers should be captured and killed. We need to get as many people as possible to make their views known.  Please act quickly to prevent this mass slaughter of one of Britain's most loved mammals.  Follow these links to find out how you can help and how the Badger Trust has been fighting against the cull.
   www.badgerprotectionleague.com     www.badger.org.uk

Please write or email to both your local MP and the Welsh Assembly Government to object to this cull.  The Welsh Assembly Government has voted in favour of a badger cull in North Pembrokeshire.  This cull is a pilot scheme to eradicate bTB in cattle.  Although this was stopped in the courts, the WAG is working to get a cull started.  This cull is being extended to the whole of Wales and England.  It's imperative that all Assembly Members and MPs are lobbied asking them to stop the cull.   Please click on this LINK to go to our page which shows both an example email and also shows what a member had as a response from Mick Bates, the Shadow Minister for the Environment, Sustainability & Rural Affairs, National Assembly for Wales.  The response was full of misinformation and appears to be a standard response that many Assembly Members are using, hence the need for all of us to state our opinions.

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