A new found stability of conscience was found at the
beginning of the week on the ending of the 2014 Badger Cull. A gigantic weight has now been lifted from
the back of nature and the countryside on the ending of this needless, futile,
slaughter. And once again, the official
figures are showing and Defra are saying the quota of Badger deaths have
nowhere near been met. Great news for
the British Badger and yet highlighting the total incompetence of the people
who set the numbers on this barbaric slaughter.
The second year of the Badger Cull and the resulting
information is the same as last year.
The culling in the cull zones has not generated the number of deaths
that had been hoped for. It should be
now quite obvious to Defra and the Ministry of the Environment that the quota
of dead Badgers is not being met simply because the countryside as I have said
so many times before, is not awash with the black and white beasts, yet the
damage done on each of these culling sprees is so very often irreversible. For the first time this week a poll from one
of the broadcasters announced that nine out of ten people are dead against the
Badger cull and the total misspend of tax payers monies, and yet the culling
goes ahead regardless. For the time
being at least, let us celebrate with the British Badger on the ending of the
2014 Badger cull.
A meeting this week with my old game keeper friend,
Nimrod, in which he was pleased to announce that his employer, Lord and Lady
Foxton’s Badger sett was doing extremely well and the family’s summer night
time excursions Badger watching had been exceptionally enjoyable. The programme of walling and tree planting to
protect the sett had proved to be most advantageous.
My own Badger sett is also doing exceptionally well. The behaviour from this week I found to be
greatly amusing. Early in the week the
gales were quite severe in this part of The Cotswolds bringing down an
abundance of autumn leaves. The Badger
being an animal not to miss out on any opportunity from nature made vast
inroads into gathering as many leaves from this autumn harvest as possible. Dragging them away to their sett with their front
paws in a most efficient manner. The Badger
values dryness and comfort almost as much as a full stomach.
Nights are now turning a lot colder, the remedial effect
of this showed itself in the form of a first noticeable frost down in the
valley last Wednesday morning.
The Badger’s life is a very wholesome one. He is the hand that fits so beautifully into
nature’s glove. An animal so at home
within our woodland. The two are sheer
poetry.
After the setbacks of the 2013 and 2014 Badger culls along
with the unhelpful remarks from our Princess Royal on how gassing Badgers is
the most humane way of dealing with them and the general public being kept
pretty much in the dark on the wellbeing of our British Icon, I feel that there
is the smallest glint of light through the trees towards the end of the
woodland. The British public are now slowly
becoming more aware of the plight of the British Badger and more sympathetic to
the Badger cause. Information is key in
any form of preservation and when one sits and looks at both sides of the
argument and the weight carrying evidence on both sides I can only honestly
come to the conclusion that the Badger culls are unjust, unscientifically
proven and the whole thing can only be described as unscientifically proven Badger
butchery.
Please watch my short film of Mrs Badger gathering leaves to bed down her sett.
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