Badger Cull

Today, the 1st June 2014, is a dark day for British badgers. It is the first day that licensing allows badgers to be culled in

In September the mass culling of badgers is due to start in West Somerset and West Gloucestershire using an untested method of ‘free shooting’. Presented

Liz Truss appeared unconfident during lengthy questioning on DEFRA’s bTB strategy at yesterday’s EFRA cross-party committee meeting.  Her responses were were familiarly jargon-filled and included increasingly constant

Today at noon, Conservative Secretary of State Owen Paterson provided his shocking response to the results of the 2013 Badger Pilot Culls in Gloucestershire and

A judge announced today that a judicial review of the legality of the badger cull has been dismissed, meaning the cull will go ahead this

Today the UK Parliamentary Backbench Business Committee voted overwhelmingly against further badger culls. The almost unanimous vote was 219 to 1 against a further cull,

A High Court battle between the Badger Trust and legal representatives for Caroline Spelman, Secretary of State for Defra, concluded this afternoon. (Tweets from court