Badger Trust condemns continued culling as “Completely irrational’

UK’s leading naturalists and broadcasters Chris Packham and Steve Backshall agree. The Badger Trust has condemned the government’s decision to continue with the pilot badger culls in Gloucestershire and Somerset as ‘completely irrational’. “These culls were sold to the public as an experiment to see if free-shooting badgers was humane […]

We’re Past The Halfway Mark!

Lancashire Badger Group has embarked on a giant re-survey project of the setts we have on our database, well over 800 of them! As part of our 2017 Vision Plan, we set ourselves the target of updating all our records (as well as increasing our sett monitoring volunteers) – over […]

Fight for foxes and badgers comes to Downing Street

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   14th July 2015   Fight for foxes and badgers comes to Downing Street     The Badger Trust and their organiser Emily Lawrence will be joining with other animal welfare organisations and campaigners to hold what is expected to be the largest ever wildlife protection protest […]

Cub Rescue!

It seems that whenever our Chair tries to have normal life events (birthdays, wedding anniversaries etc), or we have stretched resources (an event, a holidaying Incidents Officer) the badgers decide to throw in a curve ball. This particular curve ball was a sick badger cub, found by a lovely chap […]

Our AGM is on 28th March!

This year’s AGM will be held on Saturday 28th March at Samlesbury War Memorial Hall, Cuerdale Road, Samlesbury, Preston, PR5 0UY from 5.30pm. Our speakers are Operation Meles lead and ex Scottish Wildlife Officer and Species Protection Officer, Ian Hutchison and PhD student Elsa Sandoval-Barron on her project on badgers […]

Badger Trust legal challenge over monitoring of badger cull to be heard by Court of Appeal

The Badger Trust will take its legal challenge over the lack of independent monitoring of the badger culls currently being undertaken in Somerset and Gloucestershire to the Court of Appeal on Thursday 9 October. This follows a hearing on 11 September where the Vice President of the Civil Division of […]

Surviving the Baiters

It’s not every day we get to hear some really good news with relation to badger persecution, but here is such a great story, we had to share! In her owner’s words, here’s Ruby’s story… This is the story of our beautiful Patterdale /Fell terrier, Ruby – who survived against the odds when […]

Government advisors support Badger Trust High Court legal challenge

The Badger Trust has been granted permission by a judge for a Judicial Review challenge in the High Court against the DEFRA Secretary of State Owen Paterson and Natural England. The test case focuses on the Government’s highly controversial badger cull policy. The Judicial Review will argue that Owen Paterson […]

Badger Easter Eggs Activity

We’ve had some fun this week making an unusual Easter Egg for nursery. We thought we’d share it so that we can start a new Easter trend! Badger cubs should be starting to come out from their setts for the first time now so we think this is even more […]

A Letter From a Badger

[lead]Author Bio: Samantha Bradshaw is a rambling-enthusiast, who maintains her love of the outdoors through her current role at Hayes Garden World in Ambleside (http://www.hayesgardenworld.co.uk/).[/lead] Dear Neighbour There seems to be a lot of tension between us recently, so I thought that I would take the time to write to […]

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