Brian May -VOTE to Save Wildlife

 

I posted this on my groups because two Bristol 'wildlife' groups called it "campaigning" again and the rest...it never gets approved or disappears quickly. 

SHAME on you if you call yourself a naturalist or a wildlife lover and you just sit back and do not give a 🤬about the slaughtering to extinction of badgers and the killing of foxes that has set them for extinction or any of the many species of wildlife that are dying out as I write this because it is easier to sit on your ass and just watch TV or You Tube. 

ACT NOW or your children and grand children will only read about many species that are gone by the time they grow up.

ALL Books Are Priced For Region and Printed and Posted in Region -NO International Shipping

 

To make it clear: 

1.  if you order a book from the online store it does not involve international shipping. Books are printed in your region -that's how print on demand works.  

2.  The price of the book should be shown in your own currency.

3.  Obviously your local postal rates apply and there are options for tracked, special delivery and untracked (the least expensive) postage from within your region.

Ordered in your region, printed in your region and delivered by the postal system in your region.  It could not be more simple.

One important thing to note is that third party sellers will state "post free" and that is a lie. You often pay 30-75% more on a book ordered through a third party seller than from the online store. The reason is because the third party seller HAS to buy from the online store and the selling price usually covers two postal payments -0from store to them and then to you.  

People have purchased from third party sellers and not gotten their books or have had to wait over a month for them to arrive. At that point they contact me and it is all very simple: they tried to rob me of a sale and bought a book at a far more expensive price because they read "post free". That is important because if you buy from a third party seller you are removing the small profit I make on a book. Also, ordering from the online store is not just cheaper but, even though it has never happened since I started selling in 2009,  I can actually look into why you have not had your book delivered. Third party seller -your tough luck.

Support the creator and publisher not third party scammers.

I have asked to clarify which countries books can be ordered from as I know someone in Hong Kong and China were interested and it looks like you can order from there. According to the  print company:

We do NOT ship to the following countries/territories:

• Belarus
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• Region of Crimea
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• Cuba
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• Iran
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• Johnston Island
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• North Korea
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• Russia
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• Saint Pierre Et Miquelon
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• South Sudan
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• Sudan
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• Syria
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• Republic Of Turkmenistan
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• Ukraine
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• Wake Islands
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• Yemen Arab Republic
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• Venezuela
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Hope that helps!

Natural England's Plan To Make Badgers Extinct Now Confirmed

 For years I have written and said that the plan was to drive UK badgers, particularly in England, into extinction. 300,000+ killed already and the public does not give a damn. Where are the mass protests and media coverage?

This from The Badger trust https://www.badgertrust.org.uk/post/shocking-news-as-natural-england-issues-supplementary-cull-licences-against-scientific-advice

Shocking news as Natural England issues supplementary cull licences against scientific advice

Natural England CEO and Chair overrule their own scientific advice that supplementary badger culling will not work.

Badger Trust has today urgently written to the Chief Executive of Natural England to follow the scientific guidance of its own Director of Science, Dr Peter Brotherton, and stop the badger cull with immediate effect.

Documents obtained by independent ecologist Tom Langton show that Brotherton’s scientific advice was NOT to carry out the supplementary badger cull from 1 June 2024 as,

“...based on the evidence, I can find no justification for authorising further supplementary badger culls in 2024 for the purpose of preventing the spread of disease and recommend against doing so”.

Despite this advice, Natural England’s Chief Executive Marian Spain and Chair Tony Juniper have decided to proceed with supplementary badger culling and have ordered the killing of thousands of badgers to go ahead in 17 existing and 9 unnamed new zones.  

This decision is shocking news.  Badger Trust can see only one reason in the documents for this decision  – that it would upset the farming industry if they did not. This seems to point to a politically based decision rather than a scientific one, contradicting the principles of evidence-based decision-making.

Peter Hambly, Executive Director of Badger Trust, said,

“This shocking decision will lead to thousands of needless badger deaths, causing significant disruption to ecosystems and putting nature further under threat; and yet it will not reduce bTB in cattle." 

"Natural England must follow the scientific advice and call for an immediate stop to the badger cull. Every day it delays means the slaughter of more badgers and their cubs.”

In another blow to Natural England and Defra’s strategy of targeting badgers, Brotherton also added,

“It is disappointing that the recent publication by Birch et al 2024 has been widely reported as providing evidence that badger culling reduces the incidence of bTB by 56%, when in fact the study shows the overall impact of implementing a range of bTB control measures, not culling alone.  Further research to establish the relative disease reduction contributions of the different control methods is needed.”

Hambly added,

“Dr Brotherton’s comments on the ”Birch Report” are in line with what Badger Trust and independent scientists have been pointing out for months. 

"It’s cattle that spread the overwhelming majority of bTB, and it’s cattle where bTB control measures should be focused.  This view is widely accepted among independent scientists, further questioning the effectiveness of badger culling as a bTB control method." 

"We are already seeing localised badger extinction in heavily culled areas. The decision to proceed with slaughtering badgers has significant implications for the badger population and the natural environment at a time of nature crisis.

The continual scapegoating of the badger by people who are meant to protect nature continues to shock us. They must stop the killing now.”