The RSPCA is alarmed that despite three years of failed culls the UK Government is now forging ahead with plans to kill badgers in six different areas.
Three counties, Somerset, Gloucestershire and Dorset were subject to culls in 2015 and now it has been announced Defra will be licensing new areas in north Cornwall, north and south Devon, south Herefordshire and west Dorset despite...
The Government must make an immediate decision to proceed with badger cull roll out this year or risk losing the trust of the farmers who helped to elect them, say industry leaders in the South West.
Implementing a 25-year bovine TB eradication plan, including badger cull roll out, was one of the Conservatives’ manifesto pledges, but despite winning a majority in the general election...
The RSPCA is relieved to hear the Government has put a stop to the badger cull in Gloucestershire three weeks early.
Sources say the cull will end at noon on Saturday rather than the 18 December date planned after those carrying out the cull did not meet even their reduced target.
The initial six-week pilot cull ended in October, but was then extended for another eight weeks...
