The season of autumn now reigns supreme over this part of
The Cotswolds. The season that never
ceases to delight me with its beauty. A
transformation of the newly drilled cereal fields and the changing of colours
throughout the bushes and trees captivates as if by magic every morning’s and
early evening’s differential of colour. A tapestry of beauty unequalled by
anything else that I have ever seen outside of nature who seems to be able to
trumpet it each passing month. Throughout
all the seasons and changes of the landscapes one thing is always, thank
goodness, so very constant, the degree, quality of beauty and richness, so
diverse in every detail is always there.
A joy most certainly to behold.
This week the Badgers up at my Badger sett have
thoroughly enjoyed their nights out under the Blood Moon. The fullness of which, has lit up their woodland
wilderness to such a degree, they could
be seen from some distance. Their enjoyment of these evenings I have witnessed
once again first hand. Their community,
their loving, caring behaviour for each other keeps me in as much of a trance
now as it did thirty years ago. The
Badger truly worships his environment and the environment truly worships the
Badger.
I stayed out with them every evening while the moon lit
up their playground for when nights are this light, I always feel very
uncomfortable for the Badger. For nights
like these, he is at his most vulnerable to the rifle. But I am so happy to report there was no
blood spilled of my Badger colony on this breath taking, glorious Blood Moon.
The government still goes ahead with the futile,
brainless, devastating Badger cull.
Attacking a part of nature and an eco-system that works so
scientifically beautifully against all the evidence that the killing of these
black and white beasts of nature will do absolutely nothing to eradicate Bovine
TB in our cattle herds. For an animal of
such presence to be treated in such a hostile fashion is a crime and in my
humble opinion, it is a crime against nature herself. We must all stand firm and protect the
Badgers that we know about, for, once a Badger sett has been destroyed, the
Badger seldom returns and that part of our countryside that hosted the great
Black and Whites is disfranchised forever.
The two great diseases filling the news at the moment
that does require everyone’s attention is Isis and Ebola. The prescription for the Isis problem is
going to require an international force with boots on the ground. Air strikes alone cannot possibly dislodge
them. Again, we are months and months
behind the curve. So many lost and ruined
lives, all actions have been totally inadequate to contain this rampant disease
across the Middle East.
On the Ebola side of things, the measure for screening at
our airports and the Euro Star, St Pancreas station, London, taken by our
government this week seems all rather unsettling. To a layman like myself it seems an absolute
non brainer that you must have all the screening done in West Africa before people
travel, rather than let people travel from these destinations where Ebola seems
most rife. Travelling on airplanes,
trains, cheek by jowle with all other passengers. It seems to me that if you want an Ebola
epidemic we are going about things in just the right way. Basic Foot and Mouth precautions seem light
years more advanced than the procedure put in place to contain something like
Ebola. Quarantine and isolation is the
best start of prevention. Fundamental
measures that have been left wanting.
Scientists worldwide are working around the clock to
produce an ever better vaccine for this cursed Ebola, for this is how it will
be combatted like all other major diseases.
The world’s best intelligence working together to create a retaliatory vaccine,
something that should have been put in place for our own Bovine TB cattle
programme because, without the vaccination of our countryside Badgers in oral
form or otherwise, means this horrendous Badger cull will have to continue year
on year because the denominator laid down by Defra is that killing Badgers is
the only alternative to the ongoing Bovine TB problem in our cattle herds. Vaccination is and always will be the driver
that will eradicate Bovine TB in our cattle herds.
Please watch my short film of my Badgers tustling and
wrestling, having the time of their lives under a Blood Moon, enjoying their
woodland environment to the full.
Badgers playing in their woodland under a Blood Moon
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