Submitted by Robert Pownall on Friday 1st November 2024
Published on Thursday 28th November 2024
Current status: Open
Open until: Wednesday 28th May 2025
Current Signatures: 20,525
(count is updated approximately hourly)
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Badger ~ Bovine TB ~ concerns ~ Confirmed ~ End ~ Government ~ Healthy ~ Labour ~ Manifesto ~ measures ~ No Evidence ~ Parliament ~ peer ~ Reviewed ~ The End ~ The Labour
End the Badger cull and adopt other approaches to bovine TB control
The Government’s TB Eradication Strategy allows the continued killing of badgers, a protected species, until the end of this Parliament, despite the Labour manifesto calling the cull “ineffective.”
We believe the badger cull is unjustified and must end.
Some research has suggested culling results in a reduction in bovine TB (bTB) in cattle. However, there are concerns about the methodology used. Other research, which has been peer reviewed and published, shows no evidence that culling badgers reduces confirmed bTB in cattle. Over 230,000 badgers — many healthy — have been killed, disrupting ecosystems without solid scientific justification.
We call for an immediate end to the cull and the implementation of cattle focused measures to control bTB, rather than what we see as scapegoating wildlife.
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
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