Bodger’s Badger joins Badger Trust campaign to #CanTheCull
Children’s TV character ‘Badger’ is back with a new friend to help champion his namesake as the badger cull starts up once more
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- Jun 1
- 4 min
Public unaware popular English holiday destinations are in badger culling hotspots as summer starts
Badger cubs targeted in latest free shooting cull zones as local badger populations risk collapse
- May 27
- 3 min
Defra admits its own calculations error but misses the mark on full transparency
A review of ongoing debates surrounding the scientific integrity of Defra’s badger cull strategy reveals a campaign devoid of transparency
- May 26
- 5 min
Unpopular and cruel new badger cull targets cubs and risks localised badger population collapse
Badger Trust urges the government to stop the cull and focus on effective cattle measures to control bovine TB as new cull season starts
- May 18
- 3 min
Defra admits using incorrect data to deny findings of important new badger cull research
Defra used inaccurate data in its rebuttal of an independent paper showing mass badger culling is not effective at stamping out bTB in cows.
- Apr 20
- 2 min
Big Badger Debate goes on without Defra
Badger Trust hosted The Big Badger Debate webinar on 13 April 2022 with Tom Langton and Dr Mark Jones – two of the authors of a new scientif
- Mar 31
- 5 min
Badger Trust outraged as latest cull figures reveal record proportion killed by inhumane shooting
Catastrophic scale of the attack on one of Britain’s best-loved native animals could see local extinction in some English counties.
- Mar 28
- 5 min
Badger Trust responds to Farmers Weekly article on Cull Parliamentary Debate
Charity clarifies cull facts and queries ‘misrepresented’ scientific paper and ‘misleading and inaccurate’ MP quotes.
- Mar 24
- 2 min
Badger Trust Condemns Northern Ireland Minister’s Cull Announcement
Today, there is shocking news from Northern Ireland as Minister Poots launches an unscientific, expensive and cruel badger cull.
- Mar 23
- 4 min
Report from Westminster Hall Debate to end badger cull shooting
Defra still focused on the ‘sledgehammer’ of badger culling.
- Mar 18
- 4 min
New scientific study reveals that badger culling has had no effect in reducing bovine TB in cattle
A rigorous independent analysis of government data shows mass badger culling is not effective at stamping out bTB in cows.
- Feb 23
- 2 min
National survey of awareness of badger issues released
Record levels of opposition to badger cull recorded
- Feb 16
- 4 min
Public opposition grows as badger cull intensifies and spreads across England
Badger Trust highlights ‘cull creep’ into new areas as support remains low amongst the public
- Feb 7
- 3 min
Welsh Government commended for rejecting lethal badger control in fight against bovine TB
Badger Trust supports new proposals to move the focus to cattle in a proposed bTB policy refresh which sees end of badger killing
- Jan 20
- 3 min
Badger Trust urges all badger lovers to support a proposed change to bTB policy in Wales
Call for badger supporters to back and formally respond to Wales Government consultation which aims to end the use of lethal badger control
- Nov 18, 2021
- 3 min
Badger Trust welcomes end of selective badger cull in Wales and rethink of bTB policy
Wales leads the way with a common-sense approach to tackling bTB as TVR dropped and cattle measures made the main focus
- Nov 17, 2021
- 4 min
An open letter to Jeremy Clarkson after he declares his ‘new nemesis’ is badgers
Badger Trust calls out Clarkson for shocking misunderstanding of a serious cattle disease and absolute derision for the plight of badgers
- Sep 14, 2021
- 4 min
Challenge to badger cull due as Bern Convention Bureau considers alleged breach case
Complaint alleges UK Govt in breach of international wildlife treaty obligations after failing to consider cull impact on badger population
- Sep 13, 2021
- 3 min
Badger Trust calls on Northern Ireland Executive not to introduce ‘English-style’ mass badger cull
Consultation response urges DAERA to abandon mass cull proposal as least effective, most inhumane and expensive bovine TB management option
- Sep 8, 2021
- 3 min
Badger Trust outraged as new licences mean 2021 badger cull will be largest yet
Badger cull set to surpass 200,000 badgers killed as 2021 licences allow for 75,930 badgers to be shot as cull areas expand
- Aug 3, 2021
- 5 min
Badger cull in spotlight again as wildlife groups allege breach of international treaty obligations
Further evidence submitted to Bern Convention against UK Government claims badger cull policy fails to consider impact on badger population
- Jul 7, 2021
- 3 min
Badger Trust gives cautious welcome to cattle vaccine and testing field trials in fight against bTB
APHA announcement seen as progress yet another 140,000 badgers still slated to be killed under cull licences due to run to 2025
- Jun 17, 2021
- 5 min
Wales shows the way on bTB as First Minister leaves cull option behind to focus on cattle
Welsh First Minister says cattle movements are the cause of any increase and ‘culling of badgers will not happen in Wales’
- May 31, 2021
- 3 min
Warning to public as start of 2021 badger cull season brings shooters into countryside
Badger Trust alerts public to the badger cull’s reality as 1st June marks start of night-time shooting in eight English counties.
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