Are you aware that your taxes are being used to pay 75 government staff to snare and kill badgers in Ireland? VOICE is asking you to support the Irish Wildlife Trust’s campaign to stop badger culling in Ireland.
The Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT) is opposed to badger culling and the use of snares. Not only is it barbaric and unethical, recent findings have shown it to be ineffective in the war on bovine TB. Badgers can die over extended periods struggling in these hideous devices while their young starve underground. Nobody has ever counted badgers accurately in this country and while it has always been assumed that they are common animals, this can no longer be taken for granted.