by Bob Simpson | Nov 18, 2020 | News
Just one in 12 badgers found dead on roads has been found to have tuberculosis, a government backed survey has revealed – sparking calls to scrap the controversial cull. Researchers from Nottingham University collected and tested 610 ” roadkill”...
by Bob Simpson | Nov 14, 2020 | News
The Badger Trust is aware of concerns around the reported netting of the bdger sett near Crackley Woods, Kenilorth, Warks, as part of the HS2 work being undertaken in that area. The footage and wider reports submitted to the Trust have been reviewed, and whilst it is...
by Bob Simpson | Nov 14, 2020 | News
Nov 4 The Badger Trust has today welcomed the long awaited release of the Badgers Found Dead Study (BFDS), with results that clearly support the Trust’s view that badgers are not a resrvoir for bovine TB, but rather a spillover host. These latest results support...
by Bob Simpson | Nov 14, 2020 | News
“It seems a very brutal thing to do to the badgers,with some of them likely already pregnant.” The London Economic has reported on netting which has been placed over a 100-year-old badger sett at an HS2 site to drive the animals out of their homes. Read...
by Bob Simpson | Nov 14, 2020 | News
The Tory government announced in September that it had approved the further killing of tens of thousands of badgers in England. According to the Badger Trust, since 2013 over 100,000 badgers – a supposedly ‘protected’ species – have been killd...
by Bob Simpson | Nov 14, 2020 | News
A group of eminent vets claim that the rationale for expanding the badger cull has been undermined by a pair of studies commissioned by the government that ministers have been sitting on for two years. The government says new cull zones should be introduced where...
