RSPCA: Reaction to decision about the Badger Trust request for a judicial review
Thursday, 12 July 2012
10:11 AM
The RSPCA supported The Badger Trust's legal challenge of a badger cull in England and we are bitterly disappointed it was not successful.
David Bowles, the RSPCA’s Director of Communications, said: “We are bitterly disappointed that the UK Government in England is ploughing on with plans to kill badgers but the fight is not over yet.
“We believe culling is not a long-term, sustainable solution and will be of little help in reducing the disease - perhaps even making things worse in some areas. It will wipe out huge numbers of this much-loved species, virtually eliminating badgers from these areas, including many animals which are healthy.
“It is not as if there aren’t alternatives to a cull. Vaccination could be a more effective and sustainable way of dealing with the disease, and one which does not involve killing most of the badger population in very large areas of the countryside.”
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