Wild Brains - Domesticated Minds: Opposites in Welfare?
Poster presented at: UFAW International Symposium on Darwinian selection, selective breeding and the welfare of animals, Bristol, June 22-23, 2009
You can download the summary on this link and a copy of the poster on this link.
For more information please visit our Animal Cognition and Awareness page on this link.
Rational determination on bovine TB from Wales - speculative vaccination from DEFRA
The recent announcement by the Welsh minister for rural affairs, Elin Jones, to set up an Intensive Action Pilot Area in Pembrokeshire is in stark contrast to the announcement by DEFRA that they plan to start vaccinating badgers next year with BCG.
Hunting wildlife management and the moral issue
Latest joint publication with the All Party Parliamentary Middle Way Group:
Please use this link to download your copy of Hunting wildlife management and the moral issue
“We are pleased to collaborate again with the Middle Way Group to produce this latest document, the third in a series of joint publications, which we believe, together with our Veterinary Opinion on Hunting with Hounds published in 2002, represents an overwhelming welfare case for repeal of the Hunting Act (2004).”
Autumn Meeting 2009
Notice of Autumn meeting and AGM, 2009
To be held on Wednesday, November 4th 2009.
2008 Proceedings Symposium on wildlife diseases and zoonotic infections
Just over 100 delegates comprising wildlife veterinarians and ecologists from across the UK gathered at the Royal Society of Medicine in London on November 19th, 2008 to hear a variety of experts speak on a number of subjects including the threat of tick borne fever, shift and drift of the influenza virus and control of the grey squirrel.
For the full programme and summaries of the papers.....
DEFRA towards a Wildlife Management Strategy for England
Please use this link to read our response to a consultation by DEFRA towards a Wildlife Management Strategy for England, September 2008.
DEFRA cops out on controlling bovine TB
Predictably, coming as it does from this feeble Government, the Secretary of State for the Environment, Mr. Hilary Benn, announced on Monday, July 7, 2008 that DEFRA will continue to pursue the policies that have, over the last decade, led to a tenfold increase in bovine tuberculosis in cattle. In spite of statements by the Chief Scientist, Sir David King last October and the more recent report in April by the Environmental, Food and Rural Affairs Committee of the House of Commons that the wildlife reservoir of bovine TB, namely badgers, will have to be culled in order to control the disease, DEFRA have stuck their heads firmly back in the sand in the hope that the situation will get better if they just go on killing more and more cattle (some 28,000 in 2007 and rising already in 2008).
