VOLUNTEERS from Cheshire’s Wounded Badger Patrol will be staging a peaceful demonstration in Middlewich town centre on Monday (July 19) in protest at the Government’s ongoing badger cull.
Badgers have been culled in Cheshire every autumn since 2017, but this year culling activity has been stepped up through the Government permitting ‘supplementary licences’.
This means licence holders can shoot badgers from July through to January.
Badger culling in the United Kingdom is permitted under licence, within a set area and timescale, as a way to reduce badger numbers in the hope of controlling the spread of bovine tuberculosis.
The disease affects cattle and other farm animals.
A spokesperson for Cheshire Wounded Badger Patrol said there is 'no meaningful evidence' that culling badgers will reduce TB in cattle.
Cheshire's Wounded Badger Patrol will be protesting from 10am till noon in Wheelock Street, which coincides with a High Court appeal against the badger cull.
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