Dominic Dyer

Badgered to Death: The People and Politics of the Badger Cull (eBook, ePUB)

Introduction by Chris Packham

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Dominic Dyer explores the science and electioneering behind Britain's most controversial wildlife policy: the badger cull.

He exposes the catastrophic handling of bovine TB by the British government, the political manoeuvring that engineered the badger cull in 2010, and the ongoing close relationship in perpetuating the cull between the National Farmers Union and the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).

He shines an unflattering spotlight on Cabinet ministers, the veterinary profession, environmental NGOs and the BBC.

Foreword by Chris Packham, BBC Springwatch presenter

REVIEWS


'A thriller, whodunnit and impassioned polemic, this is the inside story of the badger cull.

'A vital must-read for anyone concerned about the badger's enduring place in the British countryside.'

(Patrick Barkham, nature writer for The Guardian.)

It should be read by all those battling against government policies that put money ahead of science and the environment. Our natural world is too important to be over-ridden in this way.

Dyer... pays tribute to the 'Badger Army', those many individuals from all walks of life who turned out to protest and importantly, once culling started, to protect the badgers out in the field.

Badgered to Death is for them because it tells them just why they must keep fighting the culls. It will convince any reader how very wrong and ineffective the culls will prove to be.

(Lesley Docksey, The Ecologist)

I enjoyed reading this book and I strongly recommend it to you.

If you sign up to the main message of the book, that these culls are a waste of money, a waste of Badgers and at best a partial and inefficient way to reduce bovine TB then you will be hopping mad right now and reading this book won't calm you down, it will energise you.

(Mark Avery, MarkAvery.info)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Canbury
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780993040764
• Artikelnr.: 47392207

Autorenporträt

Dominic Dyer is a wildlife protection campaigner, writer and broadcaster. He left school at 16 and joined the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food as a civil servant. Over the next 13 years in Whitehall and Brussels he worked on issues ranging from marine environment protection to organic agriculture. In 2000, he left the public sector for the Food and Drink Federation, where he became an expert on the environment and healthy eating trends. In 2008, he was appointed chief executive of the Crop Protection Association, the trade body for the UK plant science industry. In 2012, he abandoned his career as an industry lobbyist and became a full-time wildlife protection campaigner with Care for the Wild. Today, he is policy advisor for the Born Free Foundation and chief executive of the Badger Trust. Chris Packham is an English naturalist, nature photographer, television presenter and author. He is best known for his television work including the CBBC children's nature series, the Really Wild Show from 1986 to 1995. He has presented the BBC nature series Springwatch, Autumnwatch and Winterwatch since 2009. He is vice-president of the RSPB, the Wildlife Trusts, the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust and Brent Lodge Bird & Wildlife Trust. He has been a consistent opponent of the badger cull in England, describing it as "sickening, expensive, cruel and divisive." A dead badger was hung on the front gate of his home in the New Forest because of his views on the cull.