The Elephant In The Room
A scientific perspective on the badger/cattle TB issue and the remarkable failure of this Government to address the fundamental problem by Dr Chris Cheeseman Badger […]
Articles
Our statement following the release of the 2015 cull figures
On 17 December 2015, the Government finally published the numbers of badgers killed in the 2015 badger cull. Sadly, 279 badgers were killed in Somerset. […]
Sam Cannon artwork
We’re really excited to announce that we’ve now received prints and cards bearing the image that we commissioned from Sam Cannon Art and that Sam […]
An open letter to Natural England from leading UK vets
Twenty seven leading UK vets have signed an open letter sent to Natural England on 12 August 2015, calling on the organisation to fully investigate […]
Save Britain’s badgers in 2015
Dear Supporter, sadly, the badger cull in both Gloucestershire and Somerset could start at any time now. It will be the third year in succession […]
Broken Promises
We write to you in your capacity as MP of Taunton Deane constituency, an area that contains part of the Somerset badger cull zone, and […]
Why industrial farming wants to blame the badger for Bovine TB
In just over 18.5 minutes, Peter Smith explains why the badger cull won’t help to reduce Bovine TB, puts Bovine TB into context with regard […]
Professor John Bourne’s recent speech at the Badger Trust AGM Seminar
Professor John Bourne, Chair of the Randomised Badger Culling Trial (RBCT) and eminent animal disease scientist recently gave a rare speech at the Badger Trust […]
Badgers, Bovine TB and the UK General Election
The article below comes from Badgergate. The article publishes a full letter sent by Dr Chris Cheeseman who is a badger ecologist and former government […]
Who threw the first stone at the badgers?
I want to know how everything began. At some point in time, someone had the idea that badgers could be blamed for infecting cattle with […]
Can the badger cull legally be stopped?
With some NFU members wanting the NFU to push for a legal challenge should Labour come to power and stop the badger cull, we asked […]
Road traffic collision casualties
We’ve all seen ‘dead’ badgers by the side of the road but have you ever stopped to consider whether it is actually dead or not? […]
The grim reality of free-shooting badgers
This article reproduced with thanks to www.badgergate.org The dry facts of how Badger 200 died make for uncomfortable reading. But to fully capture the reality […]
Revelations from the Somerset badger cull zone
This article reproduced with thanks to www.badgergate.org Why we went into the zone We suspected that the pilot culls that began in Somerset on 26 […]