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 […]
14th December 2011 The Badger Trust has been advised by Caroline Spelman, Secretary of State for the Environment, that she has decided to proceed with the two pilot culls to determine the efficacy and humaneness of the free-shooting of badgers. Her statement was expected on 15th December but was made […]
29th November 2011 The Badger Trust warmly welcomes the Welsh Government’s decision to implement nationally a voluntary scheme for cattle passports to record when animals were last TB tested for bovine tuberculosis [1]. North Wales farmers have already been attaching special stickers to passports in a one-year pilot programme. Peredur […]
Tuesday November 15 2011 The NFU and the Badger Trust have agreed to work together on an initial project to vaccinate badgers on two farms owned by members of the NFU. NFU chief farm policy adviser John Royle and Badger Trust Director Simon Boulter have agreed a joint project in […]
4th November 2011 Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman told a Commons Select Committee (1) that the “difficult Government decision . . . of how to eradicate bovine TB was taken through a very detailed process engaging all the stakeholders as much as possible in making that decision in order to minimise the potential for […]
4th November 2011 Specimen charges arising from 2,500 cattle identification offences over four years cost a South Wales cattle dealer £12,170 at Newport. Trading standards report that offences related to moves on and off holdings under the dealer’s control in Neath, Port Talbot and Monmouthshire involving cattle moved through the local […]
28th October 2011 Farming Minister James Paice produced a string of dangerous half-truths in the Commons on October 18th. in replying to a debate on the Coalition Government’s proposals to kill badgers in an effort to control bovine tuberculosis. He implied that the larger areas proposed for the killing of badgers […]
27th October 2011 Thirty-seven per cent fewer cattle with bovine TB have had to be slaughtered in the first seven months of this year compared with the first seven months of 2009 in the county where the killing of badgers has been proposed. This heartening reduction is revealed in Defra […]