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HELP!

We are desperate for information on where you think or know that there is an active badger sett anywhere within a few miles of the western boundary of the county.  We need this so that we can keep an eye on the setts during this year’s cull period (Autumn) and...

SIGNS OF BADGER CULL IN BUCKS – September 24th 2022

People are out and about in North-West Bucks finding badger setts and looking for cull related activity.  We know that the cull has started in the Thames Valley Police area; probably in Oxfordshire.  The only thing found so far in Bucks is pre-baiting (peanuts to...

APPLICATION FOR BADGER CULL IN BUCKS!

Buckinghamshire is on the list of applications for badger culling released on gov.uk on 7th February 2022.  We will release information when we have it however the proposed areas for the culling are kept secret.  The area with most cattle bTb outbreaks in Bucks at...

Bad news from Northern Ireland

Daera (Northern Ireland’s Defra) have a current consultation on future Bovine TB policy.  Their preferred badger policy reads “Wildlife intervention would be in the form of a non-selective badger cull using controlled shooting of free roaming badgers, as...

Cattle bTB Vaccination trials finally starting!

THe government have at last started vaccination trials in Hertfordshire.  Surprise, surprise, that after years of research they’ve chosen BCG again!  Also the trial will test the Diva skin test so that they can differentiate between bTB infected cattle and...