Thousands more badgers to be culled this year
The Labour government has published details of badger culling licenses that could result in the targeting of almost 40,000 additional badgers in 2024.
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Born Free badger lobby goes to Parliament
Born Free joined Badger Trust and hundreds of supporters to call for an immediate end to the badger cull.
Government scraps proposals for ‘targeted badger culls’
Welcome relief for badgers, but more still must be done to end the cull.
Born Free to lobby the new government for an end to the badger cull
Join us in London on Tuesday 3rd September to call on the new Government to #KillTheCull
New scientific study undermines case for badger culling
A new study published in the prestigious nature journal Scientific Reports has undermined the very premise on which badger culling has operated for the past 11 years.
Natural England shuns its own advisor, and condemns thousands more badgers to death
Against the advice of its own Director of Science, Natural England has issued 26 new badger culling licences.
Badger cull numbers for 2023 released
New Government figures reveal almost 20,000 badgers killed under licence in 2023, bringing the total since 2013 to more than 230,000.
Government U-turns on badger culls
Thousands more badgers set to die under government proposals to extend culling as part of its bovine TB control policy.
New report calls for an immediate end to cruel and ineffective badger culling
Badger Trust’s important new report emphasises the need for a collaborative and evidence-based approach to tackling cattle TB.
Plans to cull badgers in Northern Ireland rejected by court
Plans by Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) to introduce an English style badger cull in efforts to control bovine TB in cattle, have been thrown out by the High Court in a judgement released on 25th October.