Staffordshire Badger Conservation Group Newslettar Srrmmer 2016

Comeand Join us for An evening of badger debate and wildlife photography As part of NationalBadgerWeek the BadgerTrustwill be hostinga town hall debate on the protectionof the badger in Staffordon Friday 1 July" 'The badgeris our largestsuruiving earnivoreand oneof Britain'sbest loved wild animals.Althoughrarely seen it has captivatedgenerationsof writersand naturalistsand the protectionof the species has becomea definingissue in the debateabout the future of our counfiside.' The debatewill focus on the many threatsfacingthe badgerrangingfrom government licensed culling to badger persecutionand threats to badger setts from building development. The debatewill be chairedby Peter Martinthe Chairmanof the BadgerTrust and panel speakerswill be

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Dominic Dyer is currenttyCEO of the Badger Trust and Senior Policy Advisor at Care for the Wild lnternationaf,a leading wildlife protectionand conservationcharity with operationsin UK, Kenya,lndiaand Thailand. Mark Jones is a veterinarianwith experiencein wildliferescue,rehabilitationand managernent. He is Programmes Manager at the Born Free Foundationin the UK, working principally on wildlife trade issues but is passionateabout British wildlife too and has been an advocate for the badger,speakingat all of the badger marchesin condemnationof this dreadfulflawed badger cull. ecologistto government,businessand industryand a Tom Langton has been a cCInsulting votuntarysector volunteer,more recentlyworking on assistingsmall pressuregroups in their legal oppositionto destructionof speciesand habitatsin Europe.He continuesto make the propertestingand not throughbadger case tha'tthe only way to eradicatebovineTB is throurgh cullingwhichsimplydoesn'twork. John Gordon Cooper QC {born 15 September 1958 in Wolverhampton)is a British barristerspecialisingin human rightsand criminallaw. He is also a broadcasterand pofitician. "Save Me" and he led the legaichallengeagainstthe BadgerCull by Brian May's Michael Glark is privilegedto have badgerscloseto his home and he becamefamiliarwith his local groups over many years. He has also served on the Governmentpanel on badgersand bovineTB, and he makesa good case againstthe pressurefrom ill-informedquartersto the cull of badgers.

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