Author: Georgia Locock

Last Saturday the weather was still looking quite promising as it wasn’t too cold and the harsh winds were still at bay, so I decided to go for a walk with my camera. Altogether we did about 18 miles, we started at Branston Water Park, went through Barton Marina where we stopped for lunch, had a look around the National Memorial Arboretum then walked back to Lichfield. There was still lots of fungi about and I saw a lot of buzzards hunting. Here are some of the photos I took.

On Sunday whilst taking my dog for a walk around my local church yard, St.Michael’s, Lichfield. I noticed that there was lots of fungus about. At my local church yard there is almost always a wide variety of different interesting fungus. At this time of year there normally isn’t that much about as it is autumnal. At the time I had my camera with me and here are some of the photos I took.

When I returned from school yesterday I found out that the badger cull in Gloucestershire had been stopped. At first this was a relief until I realized that it would continue next year, there are probably still badgers being killed illegally and the badgers which have been killed so far have been killed for no reason! As a young wildlife enthusiast I find this is quite a worry for the future of badgers in the UK, will there be any left in years to come or would they all of been killed for not much point? This isn’t just the case with the cull of badgers it also applies to a lot of species which are being legally or illegally killed for no reason.

A few months back when I wanted to find some information out about the cull I found out some facts which made me even more shocked into why they are killing them. One is that badgers aren’t the only animal which carry TB (Bovine Tuberculosis) also the badgers they kill don’t always carry the disease. Another thing which I found out is that the culling of badgers could make the bovine TB situation worse and not better.

About the stop.  

At midday today the badger cull in Gloucester was called off because not enough badgers are expected to be killed to meet targets.After the recent eight week extension the cull wasn’t meant to end until the 18th of December but it has been stopped just over two weeks early. The cull was supposed to last six weeks and was aimed at reducing the local badger population by 70 per cent. However during that period only 30 per cent were killed which led to an eight week extension and lowering the culling target to 58 per cent. Figures have not been released to show how many badgers were killed but it will be announced on Monday.

Here are some screen shots from the badgers which I have filmed on my trail camera: