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Campaign to combat badger crime
A NATIONWIDE campaign will be launched next month to expose horrific crimes against badgers.
The Badger Trust has secured the support of Operation Meles - a partnership supported by the police, other enforcement agencies and voluntary badger groups with the aim of gathering intelligence on badger persecution and targeting offenders.
The Trust is setting up meetings to take place at the same time on the same day in Glasgow, Sheffield, and Belfast.
Richard Crompton, Chief Constable of Lincolnshire who leads on wildlife for the Association of Chief Police Officers will chair the Sheffield meeting on September 20 and deliver the keynote address.
There is a growing tide of badger crime across Britain, particularly in the north.
South Yorkshire has been badly affected and the area’s badger group has just produced a new leaflet showing the gruesome results of baiting badgers with fierce dogs, hunting badgers with dogs, and deliberate cruelty in the Doncaster area.
In the north of the country criminals have been roaming over farmland in off-road vehicles in pursuit of fleeing badgers and other wildlife, destroying valuable crops.
The Badger Trust’s annual conference focused on wildlife crime and its links to badger persecution.
Trust chairman David Williams, said: “We are determined to make Britain aware of the scandal that wildlife crime is not being treated equally with the other serious criminal behaviour often exhibited by the type of person involved in the extermination of our wildlife.”
PC Mark Rasbeary, Wildlife Crime Officer for North Yorkshire Police, said that in fighting crime “best practice depends on best evidence” and he appealed to the public to report suspicious activity without hesitation.
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