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...
by Bob Simpson | Nov 13, 2020 | News
Wiltshire Against The Badger Cull has praised Bradford on Avon Town Council for stating it will not allow badger culling and hunting to take place on its land as part of a new wildlife protection policy. Read more...
by Bob Simpson | Oct 24, 2019 | News
HS2 review could be delayed until December 24 OCT, 2019 BY TIM CLARK New Civil Engineer The independent review of High Speed 2 could be delayed until December New Civil Engineer understands. Transport secretary Grant Shapps is understood to have called in the chair of...
by Bob Simpson | Oct 14, 2019 | News
By Pallab GhoshScience correspondent, BBC News 9 September 2019 Up to 9,000 of badgers are likely to have suffered “immense pain” in culls to control cattle TB, according to a former government adviser. Prof Ranald Munro is the ex-Chair of an independent...
by Bob Simpson | Oct 9, 2019 | News
Badger culling may increase spread of tuberculosis, say researchers Culls cause badgers to roam further, potentially worsening risk of disease in cattle Fiona Harvey Environment correspondent Wed 9 Oct 2019 07.00 BST Badgers start to roam much further afield when...
by Bob Simpson | Oct 9, 2019 | News
Latest data ‘not released until Defra announced 60,000 animals would be killed in 2019’ Jamie Doward Sun 15 Sep 2019 08.32 Tuberculosis levels in cattle have risen in the original two areas of the country where the badger cull has been piloted over the past five...
by Bob Simpson | Oct 9, 2019 | News
Ministers approve culling in 11 new areas, with 64,000 animals likely to be killed this autumn Damian Carrington Environment editor The Guardian Wed 11 Sep 2019 The controversial badger cull in England has been expanded to an “unimaginable scale”, according to a...
