Badger Trust Vaccination Project

Given the success of vaccination programmes in numerous counties across the country, the Badger Trust is aiming to support the mass development of these volunteer led programmes across England, Wales and Northern Ireland that provide farmers with access to alternative ongoing support instead of culling. The Trust has set up a […]

Badger Trust Symposium Booking Now Open!

Join Badger Trust at their one-day Badger Symposium on Saturday 10th November 2018! Badger trust have transformed their annual event to be an affordable, jam-packed day of discussions and debate on a wide range of issues of importance to badger protection, ecology and welfare. The Symposium will include a focus on bovine TB policy, […]

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 […]

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 […]

Badger Cull Petitions – Lancashire

[lead]Operation Badger (link here to find your own council petitions)  is a fantastic initiative set up to bring about debates surrounding the badger cull at local authority level through the power of petitions.  The aim is to ban badger culling on council land and encourage investment in vaccination across as […]

Badger Rescue Amazon Wishlist

This year we bought two more rescue cages and handling equipment to go with the two we already have. That means that if needed, we can get to an injured badger faster! To go with the cages and handling equipment we need some extra items to help with each rescue, […]

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