A decade-long policy of badger culling to tackle bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in England will come to a close, the government has confirmed, as pressure mounts from campaigners and cross-party MPs to ...

Up to 50,000 badgers could be slaughtered this year if a planned expansion of the national culling scheme goes ahead, opponents of the policy claim. The increase will be caused by a “predicted ...

Badger culling is unlikely to be a cost-effective way of helping control cattle TB in Britain, according to research published today in PLoS ONE. The authors of the study, from Imperial College London ...

Experts link increased bTB incidence to a growth in the size of dairy herds and intensification of the sector ...

Rosie Woodroffe is grateful to receive research funding and in-kind support from Defra. Concerns raised here should not be interpreted as criticisms of any individual, nor of sterling efforts to ...

The slapstick sketch carries a serious message as the pair come out of retirement to deliver a damning verdict on a bid by farmers to kill 100,000 of the animals in a bid to prevent the spread of ...

Rosie Woodroffe gratefully acknowledges research funding from Defra. Bovine tuberculosis (TB) is expected to cost British taxpayers nearly £100m in 2014. Scientific evidence is a vital weapon in the ...

Despite petitions, threats from animal rights activists, and Parliamentary debate, a controversial badger cull is under way in England, the BBC reports. A badger, for those not acquainted with the ...

THE IMMINENT launch of badger cull trials in the west of England has been dubbed "crazy" by a leading expert on the subject and brought wildlife campaigners out in force. The trial badger culls are to ...

Somewhere beneath England’s rolling fields, there’s a badger with a price on its head. Sometime in the next two weeks, it will likely become the first of hundreds to be shot dead as part of a pilot ...

Badger culling is unlikely to be a cost-effective way of helping control cattle TB in Britain, according to new research. Study authors say their findings suggest that the benefits of repeated ...