Tim and Fleur talk with Wirral & Cheshire Badger Group's Helen Bradshaw and Jane Cullen...

The conversation covers the history and work of the group, their roles in it, the group’s ongoing badger TB vaccination programme and just badgers and badger conservation generally.

Thanks:
Fleur Wilson, Stacey Body - Production
Kelly Lomas & Gif Lemon - Artwork
'Still Pickin', Kevin Macleod - Theme tune

Related links:

The Badger Group
http://wcbg.org.uk/

Jane Ratcliffe
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/jan/04/guardianobituaries.patrickbarkham

Patrick Barkham
@patrick_barkham
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Badgerlands-Twilight-Britains-Enigmatic-Animal/dp/1847085059/ref=pd_sim_14_2/259-9522622-3105701?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1847085059&pd_rd_r=a8ee4cab-bdb8-4b8d-a2cf-4f6b81d10788&pd_rd_w=w51ds&pd_rd_wg=yAqtG&pf_rd_p=bbc136fb-d98b-4822-a5fd-b92d15766975&pf_rd_r=Y944Z9X348BFZAG6S2EY&psc=1&refRID=Y944Z9X348BFZAG6S2EY

rECOrd
http://www.record-lrc.co.uk/

The cull/TB

- FAQs about the cull: https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-and-wild-places/saving-species/badgers/faqs
- What is BTV?: https://www.nhs.uk/news/food-and-diet/is-eating-meat-infected-with-bovine-tb-harmful/
- Vaccination shortage: http://wcbg.org.uk/badger-vaccine-shortage-2016/
- Gov strategy for tackling bTV: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/a-strategy-for-achieving-officially-bovine-tuberculosis-free-status-for-england

 Brian Martin - Woolston Eyes Nature Reserve:
https://woolstoneyes.com/