Defra confirmed culling was not expected to resume this year, effectively ending the practice in England Badger culling has effectively ended in England, the government has confirmed. The practice was ...

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 ...

Northern Ireland farmers are being invited to have their say on whether badger culling, vaccination or test-and-remove measures should be ...

Northern Ireland farmers are being asked for views on whether badger culling, vaccination or test-and-remove measures should be used to help tackle bovine TB.

Government officials have given the go-ahead for a fresh round of badger culling, starting immediately – against advice from their own scientific chief. Natural England is believed to have authorised ...

A prominent ecologist says an independent assessment of the latest study on badger culling is a “bombshell” takedown of the government’s evidence used to justify the policy. Tom Langton, a badger ...

The Government faced renewed criticism of its controversial badger cull as figures showed new tuberculosis outbreaks in cattle had reached a decade low. New figures showed the monthly incidence rate ...

ANDY CUNNINGHAM, the creator and co-star of the 1990s children’s television show /Bodger and Badger/, has produced a one-off episode for YouTube in which his furry friend becomes unknowingly involved ...

Badger culling has effectively ended in England, the government has confirmed. The practice was widely used in farming to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis (TB), which resulted in the ...