Badger crisis goes global as influential international magazine covers English badger killing
- Badger Trust Staff Team
- Jan 14
- 2 min read
Increasing shock at the anti-nature actions of the UK government.
Badger Trust’s Chief Executive was interviewed by New Yorker journalist Anna Russell for a piece in the magazine. The article outlines the very real threat the English badger population is under as the government continues to kill tens of thousands each year instead of tackling the bTB crisis directly with cattle measures.
Peter Hambly, Badger Trust Chief Executive, commented:
"The fact the mass killing of native badgers is being covered in stories across the world shows the stain this wildlife tragedy is leaving on English nature.
He continued:
“The UK government cannot help nature recover until it stops this ineffective and unethical mass killing of native badgers. It's hard for the British Government to have any credibility talking about protecting nature when it continues to authorise the mass killing of badgers with no real evidence to back it up.
Bovine TB is mainly spread from cattle to cattle, so they must focus on cattle herds and introduce proper testing and cattle vaccination as soon as possible.”
Read ‘Britain’s Badger Wars’, the interview in the New Yorker that covers the English killing of badgers
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Scientific research has repeatedly proven that culling doesn’t work. It’s an unscientific, unethical and ineffective approach to curbing a disease that’s spread from cattle to cattle in 94% of cases.
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