The last badger culling licence, which was granted in Cumbria in 2024, expires in 2028, but the Department for Environment, ...

In the flurry of the holiday season, many people will have missed the government’s verdict on the 2014 badger culls, published on December 18. Farmers’ representatives have branded these recent culls ...

Badger culling is unlikely to be a cost-effective way of helping control cattle TB in Britain, according to research published today in PLoS ONE. The authors of the study, from Imperial College London ...

Flickr/David Clare. Some rights reserved. After many months of deliberations the Government has finally forced through yet another flag ship policy. This does not ...

A stable social structure may help control the spread of bovine tuberculosis (TB) among badgers, ecologists have found. The findings -- published online in the British Ecological Society's Journal of ...

Up to 50,000 badgers could be slaughtered this year if a planned expansion of the national culling scheme goes ahead, opponents of the policy claim. The increase will be caused by a “predicted ...

Bovine tuberculosis (TB) is expected to cost British taxpayers nearly £100m in 2014. Scientific evidence is a vital weapon in the fight to protect cattle from TB. Why, then, has the government just ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. For the second year in a row, hunters have begun killing badgers in two ...

The first pilot badger control operations have begun in west Gloucestershire and west Somerset, the National Farmers' Union (NFU) said. In a letter to its members, NFU president Peter Kendall said the ...

A new study has found that culling drives badgers to roam 61% further afield -- helping to explain why the practice, intended to reduce bovine TB transmission, can sometimes exacerbate the problem ...