News & Updates

Born Free joined Badger Trust and hundreds of supporters to call for an immediate end to the badger cull.

Welcome relief for badgers, but more still must be done to end the cull.

Join us in London on Tuesday 3rd September to call on the new Government to #KillTheCull

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.

Against the advice of its own Director of Science, Natural England has issued 26 new badger culling licences.

New Government figures reveal almost 20,000 badgers killed under licence in 2023, bringing the total since 2013 to more than 230,000.

Thousands more badgers set to die under government proposals to extend culling as part of its bovine TB control policy.

Badger Trust’s important new report emphasises the need for a collaborative and evidence-based approach to tackling cattle TB.

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.

Figures reveal a further 24,000 badgers could be killed under licence in the remainder of this year.