Protection Of Badgers

EDM number 911 in 2002-03, proposed by Nigel Jones on 18/03/2003.

That this House notes that the Protection of Badgers Act 1992 provides badgers with a high level of legislative protection; is concerned that badgers continue to be persecuted; believes that this level of persecution could be reduced if all police forces were to have at least one full-time wildlife liaison officer; notes that existing wildlife liaison officers have insufficient financial or time resources allocated to their wildlife duties and so cannot always direct adequate attention to this work; and calls for the Protection of Badgers Act 1992 to be amended to make badger cruelty a recordable crime worthy of police time and money.

This motion has been signed by a total of 123 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.