AUGUST 2017 Chairman's UPDATE & SUMMARY

Glad to say that the group has restarted successfully! I am now officially in the background doing bits and pieces, and work is underway by other members to organise events, write newsletters, help with anti-cull activities, look at badger related planning issues, rescue badgers that end up in the wrong places or injured and many other things. If you'd like to help please get in touch either on here or via facebook.
It looks as though the badger will spread out from the westcountry this year and expand in some areas where it is already underway. More help will be needed in badger cull areas. This is all very sad indeed, and we can only hope that somebody with influence will realise that badger culling is not the solution to bovine TB in cattle. Please continue to pester your MPs to get the cull stopped. If you need advice on wording a letter to your MP then get in touch. Accuracy is important in getting the message across.
Ideas for events always welcome.
Bob Simpson. 23rd August 2017

Spring 2016 - GROUP RESTARTING

After a gap on several years, new volunteers are taking over the running of the Bucks Badger Group. Newsletters will soon resume and all member will be contacted and thanked for their patience. We have still been actively looking at badger issues in the County and looking after Bucks badgers. More volunteers still needed, and somebody to take over the role of Chairman/Chairperson from me.
Bob Simpson. 31st May 2016

2016 - English Badger Cull

The cull which will resume again this year in single areas of Somerset, Gloucestershire and Dorset, will most likely be rolled out to other areas as many applications have been made to Natural England for licenses. Liz Truss MP has promised the NFU a roll out of the cull policy "in areas where bTB is rife"
Bob Simpson. 31st May 2016.