Dartmoor Badgers Protection League

The Dartmoor Badgers Protection League (DBPL) was founded in 1977 by Jack Simpson, Brenda Charlesworth, Colonel Miles Skewes-Cox, Nick Nakorn (Publicity Officer) and Ed Burrell of the Indio Design Partnership. In 1977, Norman Hallet and Aubrey Paul of Hallet-Paul Publicity in Newton Abbot were very supportive with their time and office facilities. The DBPL was formed to counter the gassing of badgers on Corndon Tor by the Ministry of Agriculture. In that year, hundreds of members camped on the tor for many months to prevent the killing of badgers. By 1979, Brenda Charlesworth and others from the league had already seen Lord Zuckerman at Westminster to try to extend the protected status of the badger in Britain; and to badger the academics into questioning some dodgy "scientific research" work done by the then Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food (MAFF).
The DBPL was reformed as a national group in 1984 by Brenda Charlesworth and the writer John Bainbridge to take direct action against MAFF badger trapping. For many months in 1985 volunteers camped in Park Wood at Spitchwick on Dartmoor and physically prevented the MAFF from setting badger traps.
The group folded circa 2002.

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