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  New Forest Badger Group
member of the Badger Trust
email : info@newforest-badgers.org

 
  President : Ken James
Chairman : Adrian Butterworth
Secretary : Martin Noble
 
 

 Welcome to the brand new website for New Forest Badgers

 
 

The New Forest is both a wild and a managed landscape covering
144 square miles of Hampshire in Southern England.

Established in 1969, the New Forest Badger Group m
onitors
an area of diverse habitats where hunting, livestock farming
& arboriculture have moulded the forest we see today.
Now designated as England's newest National Park....
....A new era dawns.

 
Paying particular attention to The Badger, this website will endeavour to show
what makes the New Forest and its Natural History so special
 

 

TB

Cattle and Badgers....
The truth is out there

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Research

The ecology of the Eurasian Badger
(Meles meles)

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A comprehensive list of Badger Groups from across the UK

 

 Chairman's Notes

SPRING/SUMMER 2006

Dear Badger Group friends,

The last twelve months have been a period of great activity for the Group. In the summer Martin and Julia Noble hosted their open day at Keepers Cottage, always a popular event. This time was no exception, with good weather, plenty to see and an excellent tea We managed to raise over £100 in the hat to go towards the high costs of looking after all these animals,
Chris Packham
There were two stalls at Lymington, the second in August was massively profitable, Then finally there was the fully-subscribed evening at Beaulieu in December with guest speaker Chris Packham. I would like to extend sincere thanks to everyone who played their part in making all these events so successful.

Shortly before Christmas the Badger world was appalled to learn of DEFRA's proposals for a Badger cull in response to pressure from the farming lobby. They were prompted to strike out against something - badgers being the obvious choice - As farmers were faced with the double whammy of proposed pre-movement testing of cattle and reduction in levels of compensation for bovine TB losses.

We formed a subcommittee to formulate our response. The submission to DEFRA by this Group can be seen here. We owe enormous thanks to Martin, Manuel and Simon for very many hours of work on this project - midnight oil was burned, quite literally. Many members also sent in individual objections for which they are to be applauded.

New Forest Badger Group Leaflet  On the subject of initiatives, there were several this
   year, a sub-committee comprising Julia, Jenny and
  Juliet, helped by Peter Dobson, produced in a very
  short time-frame a leaflet for the Group, which many
  of you will have seen at Beauleiu. It will be a great
  publicity tool at our future events, The Group also
  received, and the committee gratefully accepted, a
  most generous offer from Manuel and Peter to
  produce this web site for us and to fund its
  installation and basic running costs.


Jenny has continued to produce our excellent newsletter, the latest issue available today at this AGM. While member, Helen Tinker has introduced us to another venue for a sales table, the RSPCA open day at Ashley Heath, see Future events. Please do support our stall there.

These successful events have considerably boosted the Group's funds and financial base. This has also helped by the increased subscription rate and an encouraging increase in membership. There have also been some generous donations from some of our members.

I hope you will have a worthwhile Badger watching season, and my thanks again to all who have contributed to a fine year for the New Forest Badger Group

With best wishes

Adrian Butterworth
 
 

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