ePetition details
Save Wirral's badgers from culling
This is a national issue which will be of direct concern to the people of Wirral when DEFRA "rolls out" its culling policy in 2014. The object of the petition is to ensure that Wirral's badger population is as safe as possible from slaughter and that the already available injectable badger vaccine against bTB is used in as many cases as possible. We ask this because we believe the culling policy is inhumane (DEFRA's measurement of "humaneness is to time the screams of wounded badgers), inefficient (previous culls showed an increase in bTB because of badger movement) and unscientific (the majority of scientific opinion hold that a cull will have "no meaningful result").
Started by: Lesley Brockbank
This ePetition ran from 21/01/2014 to 30/04/2014 and has now finished.
48 people signed this ePetition.
Council response
Whilst the Council does not have a specific policy as such on this issue the working procedures used by our Pest Control service and adopted by the Council with respect to land under its management do not permit the use of snares.
We would concur with the sentiments of the petition that there are much more efficient and humane methods of legal pest control for target species and there is absolutely no need for us to use them.
Under the circumstances it is considered that there are already sufficient controls in place by the Council in support of the petition you have raised.