One of our members visited our badger hide recently, here’s what he experienced! It was our first visit to the hide, which we’d heard mentioned so often before. Having had a hectic couple of weeks, Karen and I were both looking forward to one of life’s simple, but frequently overlooked, […]
25th May 2012 The Badger Trust’s Judicial Review of the Coalition Government’s decision to kill badgers in England has been set for Monday and Tuesday June 25 and 26. It will be heard in the High Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division, in the Administrative Court. The Trust’s Judicial Review of the […]
23rd May 2012 Up to a third of infected cattle could be missed by the standard test for bovine tuberculosis (bTB) because a liver parasite may be hampering eradication of the disease, research suggests. Dairy cattle carrying both TB and the 3-cm fluke Fasciola hepatica were less likely to reveal the infection, but […]
A RELEASE BACK TO FREEDOM, FOR ONE LUCKY BADGER! – by Diane Lancashire Badger Group were very pleased to help the RSPCA to release a young female badger recently, that had spent two months at the RSPCA wildlife hospital at Stapely Grange in Cheshire. The young sow had been caught […]
A short video of young cubs playing at a sett in Lancashire
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Monday 27th February 2012 Today, the Badger Trust will lodge a claim in the High Court to seek a Judicial Review of DEFRA’s decision of 14th December 2011 to kill badgers in England. The Trust continues to do all it can to prevent the proposed ‘DIY’ farmer-led cull, which will not benefit […]
9th February 2012 The Badger Trust has sent a letter to the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs giving them notice of the grounds of challenge which the Badger Trust intends to pursue if DEFRA does not set aside its decision to kill badgers in its measures to eradicate bovine […]
Badger Trust joins other leading wildlife organisations in condemning cruelty in the countryside 12th January 2012 As seven criminals were being sentenced [1] at Scarborough for causing the “horrific and barbaric” deaths of two badgers ripped apart by dogs, the Badger Trust was one of 15 leading wildlife organisations who sent a […]
Press Release 10th January 2012 As part of an ongoing operation “Operation Meles” the public are being asked to be on the alert for any suspicious behaviour they see at or near badger setts they may know about. Historically between now and the end of April is the time of […]