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Tim Birch, Director of Nature's Recovery at Derbyshire Wildlife Trust, is passionate about defending wildlife & restoring the natural world. He is a noted proponent of a vaccination programme to protect badgers from Bovine TB – in early 2018 he tweeted this about badgers and Michael Gove, who was Environment Secretary at the time: “It is incomprehensible Gove considering slaughtering badgers in low risk bovine TB areas in England. Why not support vaccination there? Mr Gove come and visit Derbyshire Wildlife Trust vaccination programme. We cost £80 per vaccinated badger.  Shooting a badger costs £6000!” 

Three years on and nothing has changed...