Heavens Above!

From the graveyard to the loft… and back again! We recently received a call on our incident line from a woman in Rossendale who had found a badger cub curled up in a graveyard in broad daylight. Realising that something was wrong, she managed to get the badger into a dog-crate and […]

What DOES the English badger cull mean for Lancashire’s badgers?

Yesterday Caroline Spelman announced that she was ‘minded to allow a cull’ of badgers in two hotspot areas for bovine tb, most likely Devon and Gloucestershire.  This will follow more consultation on the methods to be used (shooting of free running badgers), and whether or not they are considered to […]

Incidents Officer – Badger Baiting

The Badger Group Incidents Officer has been working with the group for many years. This is the person that takes the call when a badger has been run over, or when a suspicious incident is in progress or has occurred. It’s no easy job, made harder when you care so […]

DEADLY NEW YEAR FOR BADGERS?

The Badger Trust has formally stated its total opposition to culling badgers to control cattle tuberculosis and calls on two UK Governments to reconsider their proposed policies. The Coalition Government and the Welsh Assembly Government are to give their decisions in respect of England or Wales respectively during the early […]

Press Release:CYNICAL EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL

Badger Trust challenges exploitation of farmer’s plight. The Badger Trust exposes last week’s attempt [1] by the Farmers’ Union of Wales (FUW) to trade on sympathy for farms affected by bovine TB (bTB) as cynical emotional blackmail. The farming press has reported, in harrowing language, how a Welsh farmer had […]

How to Respond to the Government Consultation

WE NEED YOUR URGENT RESPONSES TO THE CONSULTATION BY 8TH DECEMBER PLEASE! You can respond to the consultation by following this step-by-step guide. Or by downloading the template here and sending it with your name and the date (this is very important) to; EMAIL: tbbc@defra.gsi.gov.uk POST: TBBC mailbox, c/o Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London, […]

Government Consultation on Badger Culling

WE NEED YOUR URGENT RESPONSES TO THE CONSULTATION BY 8TH DECEMBER PLEASE! I haven’t posted for a while, sometimes life (and health!) get in the way. But I am posting now, because this is so important. As you may know, the government is currently carrying out a consultation on culling […]

Report from the Badger Trust Conference 2010, the science behind our stance on the cull.

From time to time I’m asked to explain the science behind my stance on the cull so I was very excited to find out that Rosie Woodroffe, a specialist on badger ecology, and the only ecologist on the ISG panel (the Independent Scientific Group responsible for advising the government on […]

Anergy, the real cause behind unexpected herd breakdowns?

Well it’s been an interesting, if slightly depressing day.  Went out to check a sett at lunchtime,  with one of our committee. A dedicated lady who has checked the setts on this site every day for months.   This was her first return since a two week holiday.  It had been […]

Cattle based measures and vaccination in the battle against TB

Following the recent news from the Court of Appeal on the WAG badger cull (see previous blog) my attention has turned to the the rest of the UK. The Conservative party had said that it intended to put a badger cull back on the table in their manifesto. Nick Herbert […]

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