Former Secretary of State for the Environment challenging his successor to consider an early end to the Hampshire badger cull based on the content of the most recent APHA Year-End Descriptive Epidemiology Report for the county which contains not a shred of confirmed evidence of bTB reservoirs in badgers here OR evidence of wildlife as a source of herd infections. Mark Spencer’s reply is typically ignorant and dismissive, completely ignores the basis of the question and avoids answering it. We’ll now apply even more pressure to Spencer, Richard Benyon, Defra and Ranil Jayawardena alongside our friends at Badger Trust and Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust.
