Basically, research shows that badgers damage success of ground nesting birds so we should be able to cull them.
Badgers Again.
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Basically, research shows that badgers damage success of ground nesting birds so we should be able to cull them.
Because they don't want to publish the truth.
Trouble is the never ending positive propaganda from Packham BBC and alike. Public see them as adorable cuddly and persecuted when the absolute opposite is true. It's a big mustelid and will take anything up to 1 m off the ground.
I am surprised nobody had done research on badgers effect on earthworm populations and soil fertility. They are documented to eat many hundreds of worms per night. Do the maths.
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Trouble is the never ending positive propaganda from Packham BBC and alike. Public see them as adorable cuddly and persecuted when the absolute opposite is true. It's a big mustelid and will take anything up to 1 m off the ground.
I am surprised nobody had done research on badgers effect on earthworm populations and soil fertility. They are documented to eat many hundreds of worms per night. Do the maths.
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It would be the cheapest and most effective move to give them an open season, it would also have the quickest impact on nest survival imo.
And the effects on ground nesting bees, particularly in the light of "our concerns over pollinators".
David
Had two nests ripped out this year on our back lane!.
Protection given in blanket form without thought of consequences.
Bo Diddley
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Just imagine the lost revenue for RSPB, etc., if they agreed that badgers need culling because they are apex predators of anything living on the ground.
Thousands would stop the monthly subs immediately.
Thousands would stop the monthly subs immediately.
As I've said before, the cull was a total waste of time and money! We had a successful cull here just about four years ago, and badger numbers have now virtually recovered to pre-cull levels.
They are powerful, destructive animals, and do far more damage in a variety of ways than most people realise. As has been said, the common-sense way would be to treat them like foxes, where they are causing trouble, deal with them, where they are not, leave them alone. It's always worked with foxes.
They are powerful, destructive animals, and do far more damage in a variety of ways than most people realise. As has been said, the common-sense way would be to treat them like foxes, where they are causing trouble, deal with them, where they are not, leave them alone. It's always worked with foxes.
Freeforester
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The policy should reflect science and not political expediency or dogma.
No rocket science to understand that one pair of foxes will cover a territory where there could be one hundred badgers abroad, and the fox gets the blame whilst the badgers get a free pass.
It’s a question of balance, and few people wish to see the imbalance they cause, but wishful thinking and propaganda doesn’t feed the sett.
Hoping Reform will grasp this nettle, the others clearly will not, and everyone’s countryside suffers the consequences.
No rocket science to understand that one pair of foxes will cover a territory where there could be one hundred badgers abroad, and the fox gets the blame whilst the badgers get a free pass.
It’s a question of balance, and few people wish to see the imbalance they cause, but wishful thinking and propaganda doesn’t feed the sett.
Hoping Reform will grasp this nettle, the others clearly will not, and everyone’s countryside suffers the consequences.
In Eire the cull resulted in Bovine TB in Cattle going off of a cliff edge.
Yes thats why i would look to see scat analysed - i have no doubt they do damage - in my opinion little compared to a fox - but science could show properly
No one who has any wildlife concerns for care would agree with Digging / Baiting / or Cruelty of any form for betting or any other form of cruelty outside of control, is a good thing, but control
for the betterment of the greater biosphere is an absolute need.
for the betterment of the greater biosphere is an absolute need.
Scat anyalsis is a low score, what is needed is people putting into public domain actual badger activity on video of kills on predation runs.
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