The badger (Meles meles) is a protected species under UK and European laws A majority of Britons in both town and country oppose killing badgers to curb cattle tuberculosis, an opinion poll for ...

Wildlife campaigners said the habitat, which is protected by law ... There then must be 21 days without badger activity at the sett before it can disturbed. Members of Mansfield and Warsop ...

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Mike Weaver, from the Worcestershire Badger Society, said: "I have never heard of anything like this in 24 years of work with badgers throughout the UK." "My husband opened the door and the badger sat ...

The UK government's plans to license badger culling for the control of tuberculosis (TB) in cattle are controversial; by contrast, the Welsh Assembly has decided to vaccinate rather than cull badgers.

But the badgers here – and across west Gloucestershire – are facing another threat: this area is one of the two pilot zones chosen for the UK's controversial badger cull that will imminently see up to ...