Binfield Badger Group Main Body

Welcome to the Group's web site and our work to improve the protection of badgers. 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 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.

PLEASE, PLEASE help us to stop the culling of badgers. The Welsh Assembly is 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.blackandwhite.info www.badger.org.uk

Please write or email to 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. There is a strong possibility that this cull will be 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. Although this is in Wales, it could set the path for England, as committed to in the Conservative Party manifesto!

The RSPCA has launched a web-based petition to Elin Jones called “Back off the Badgers”:

www.backoffbadgers.org.uk/wales/index_english

Please visit this site and add your name to the list of those who want the cull to be called off.

Also there was a petition on the Number 10 Downing Street web site. This has now closed, however you might be interested in reading the response. Click the following, then return to find out more about the Binfield Group.
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/stop-badger-cull/