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Peter Black and South Wales West Liberal DemocratsRepresenting Aberavon, Bridgend, Gower, Neath, Ogmore, Port Talbot, and Swansea |
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Assembly Member welcomes legal ruling squashing badger cull
July 13, 2010 12:00 AM
The Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Member for South Wales West, Peter Black has welcomed a decision by the Court of Appeal this morning to squash the Welsh Government's order implementing a badger cull in North Pembrokeshire.
The ruling comes after the Badger Trust challenged the proposal on three grounds chiefly that the Government's discretion to make the order could not lawfully be exercised without considering the balance between the extent of the benefit in disease terms and the extent of the killing of wild animals required to achieve it and that the Order itself was flawed because it applied to the whole of Wales rather than just North Pembrokeshire, the area consulted on.
Mr. Black said: "I am delighted that commonsense has prevailed in this matter. All the scientific evidence pointed to the fact that this cull would not have achieved the reduction in bovine TB rates claimed and may have led to an increase in the disease in outlying areas. It has divided communities in North Pembrokeshire and led to unnecessary and over-bearing Police action against local people who had peacefully opposed the cull because they considered it a threat to their livelihood and the biodiversity of the area they live in.
"However, this court decision does not mean that the threat of bovine TB should be ignored, Trials of a new badger vaccine are already underway in England and the Minister should look at this method of control as a matter of urgency. I will be urging her to initiate her own vaccination trial in the former-cull area alongside the cattle control measures she has already announced. Such a move would be welcome and from what I have been told would receive the co-operation of the whole community in North Pembrokeshire."
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