The founder of East Huntspill’s Secret World Wildlife Rescue charity will be joining a demonstration in Wales this weekend to campaign against the culling of badgers.
Pauline Kidner and the charity’s supporters will take part in the protest outside the Welsh Assembly Rooms in Cardiff on Saturday (June 28th).
The wildlife charity is well-known for its work with badgers and is the largest badger cub rearing unit in the country.
Pauline told Burnham-On-Sea.com: “We continue to fight for the badger and will make it quite clear to the Welsh Assembly that culling badgers is the wrong decision with regards to the control of Bovine TB in cattle.”
“We find it incredible that despite scientific evidence from the government’s own independent scientific group, killing badgers still plays a part in Wales’ policies.”
The Black and White Campaign led by Secret World has now amassed 20,000 signatures against gassing and snaring of badgers.
Pauline added: “Remember, even last year when the government held a consultation on badger culling over 97% of the replies were against it – the largest response ever for a consultation.”
“It is not because we are bunny huggers that we are campaigning. We know that some badgers can carry Bovine TB and can infect cows as indeed cows can infect badgers. Culling has not worked in the past 30 years and will never work. That’s a scientific fact.”
