Badger set free from cruel snare
This is one of the estimated 97,000 badgers cruelly snared by Ireland's Department of Agriculture as part of its failed TB eradication scheme. This badger was found and released - unlike the thousands of others who are left to struggle in the snares (overnight or for days) before a Department of Agriculture "snaring operative" returns to shoot the animal in the head. Please join the campaign against Ireland's cruel badger snaring - click on "Campaigns at www.banbloodsports.com
Thanks to Lady Sue Kilbracken for the video footage.
Thanks to Tom Cusack / freemusicforvideos.com for the music.
ACTION ALERTS
Sign a Petition: 'Stop badger culling in Ireland'
http://www.change.org/petitions/irish-petition-against-badger-cull-to-minister-for-agriculture-simon-coveney-stop-badger-culling-in-ireland
Please appeal to Agriculture Minister to show compassion and suspend the cruel badger snaring operation.
Minister Simon Coveney
Department of Agriculture
Email: minister@agriculture.gov.ie
Ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Affairs and the National Parks and Wildlife Service to stop licensing the snaring and killing of badgers.
Minister Jimmy Deenihan
Email: ministers.office@ahg.gov.ie
CC: nature.conservation@environ.ie,taoiseach@taoiseach.gov.ie
Find out more about Ireland's badgers
http://www.badgerwatch.ie
Background to this snaring incident...
Department 'trespassed' during "Cruel" badger cull
Cavan Post - June 2nd, 2008
The Department of Agriculture has been accused of tresspass and setting badger snares on Killegar Estate, in Carrigallen, without permission. It is also claimed the snares were left unattended for days, resulting in extreme cruelty to the captured animals while also posing a health risk to people using the land. Lady Sue Kilbracken, wife of the late John Godley, 3rd Baron Kilbracken, lives on the well-known estate. A neighbour, Johnny Fyfe, found 14 snares on Friday, April 18, and disarmed all he saw.
"I did not know the snares were there and was not asked permission by any Department of Agriculture official to set the snares," an angry Lady Kilbracken told the Post.
"The Department was trespassing and it is evident that they are engaged in a covert operation to cull badgers and say very little about what they are doing to anyone in the given area in order to prevent objection and obstruction. In my case, they've been caught out and they are very red-faced about it," she claimed.
When Lady Kilbracken contacted the Department she was informed the traps had been set four days previously on Monday, April 14, by a local department official.
It's understood a herd of cattle close to the property had an outbreak of TB but this had been six months previously and the herd is now free of TB. Badgers are thought to be carriers of bovine tuberculosis (TB) and are routinely culled for the prevention of disease spread, a practice often criticised by animals rights groups...
Thanks to Lady Sue Kilbracken for the video footage.
Thanks to Tom Cusack / freemusicforvideos.com for the music.
ACTION ALERTS
Sign a Petition: 'Stop badger culling in Ireland'
http://www.change.org/petitions/irish-petition-against-badger-cull-to-minister-for-agriculture-simon-coveney-stop-badger-culling-in-ireland
Please appeal to Agriculture Minister to show compassion and suspend the cruel badger snaring operation.
Minister Simon Coveney
Department of Agriculture
Email: minister@agriculture.gov.ie
Ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Affairs and the National Parks and Wildlife Service to stop licensing the snaring and killing of badgers.
Minister Jimmy Deenihan
Email: ministers.office@ahg.gov.ie
CC: nature.conservation@environ.ie,taoiseach@taoiseach.gov.ie
Find out more about Ireland's badgers
http://www.badgerwatch.ie
Background to this snaring incident...
Department 'trespassed' during "Cruel" badger cull
Cavan Post - June 2nd, 2008
The Department of Agriculture has been accused of tresspass and setting badger snares on Killegar Estate, in Carrigallen, without permission. It is also claimed the snares were left unattended for days, resulting in extreme cruelty to the captured animals while also posing a health risk to people using the land. Lady Sue Kilbracken, wife of the late John Godley, 3rd Baron Kilbracken, lives on the well-known estate. A neighbour, Johnny Fyfe, found 14 snares on Friday, April 18, and disarmed all he saw.
"I did not know the snares were there and was not asked permission by any Department of Agriculture official to set the snares," an angry Lady Kilbracken told the Post.
"The Department was trespassing and it is evident that they are engaged in a covert operation to cull badgers and say very little about what they are doing to anyone in the given area in order to prevent objection and obstruction. In my case, they've been caught out and they are very red-faced about it," she claimed.
When Lady Kilbracken contacted the Department she was informed the traps had been set four days previously on Monday, April 14, by a local department official.
It's understood a herd of cattle close to the property had an outbreak of TB but this had been six months previously and the herd is now free of TB. Badgers are thought to be carriers of bovine tuberculosis (TB) and are routinely culled for the prevention of disease spread, a practice often criticised by animals rights groups...