DEFRA revealed on Friday that 10,886 badgers have been killed this year in 10 different zones as a result of the government’s badger cull policy, meaning...
TV naturalist and campaigner Bill Oddie has joined forces with Humane Society International ahead of National Badger Day on 6th October, to spend a night out...
The Humane Society International UK, in response to the debate at Westminster Hall on the badger cull and bovine TB, has criticised the government for ignoring scientific...
The shooting of badgers as part of the government’s badger cull has began in Gloucestershire, with local Wounded Badger Patrol campaigners confirming night time shooting and...
Labour’s environment secretary Maria Eagle will deliver her party’s promises on improving air quality, tackling climate change and ending the badger cull at the Labour’s annual...
A controversial cull of badgers to prevent the spread of bovine TB has resumed, despite evidence suggesting that the practice is inhumane and ineffective. [Blue &...
This year’s pilot badger cull in southern England will continue, despite a high court legal challenge by the Badgers Trust to ensure independent oversight of the...
Natural England has given the green light to a much-criticised badger cull for the second time in two pilot areas to fight tuberculosis in cattle, despite...
Owen Paterson has been sacked as environment secretary as a part of a government reshuffle, with his critics welcoming the move. Paterson has previously been the...
Badger vaccinations could mean an end to culling as the government announces plans to roll out such schemes across England. Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a devastating...
Killing only infected badgers to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis (TB) could be as ineffective as culling large numbers, because the remaining animals are likely...
The government has confirmed it is currently examining how the poisonous gases carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide flow through complex badger setts – with a view...
The badger cull in Gloucestershire is to come to an end, over two weeks before its license runs out. A spokesperson said there was no “realistic...
Just four of the 25 environment-related areas that the coalition government promised to address have made ‘good progress’ since 2010, according to a group of 41...
Around 5,000 badgers are set to be shot in Somerset and Gloucestershire in an effort to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis (TB). However, opponents claim...