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A group of anti-badger cull campaigners have begun a 10-day walk to raise money and awareness for their cause. The walkers are being led by Devon-based wildlife sculptor Ama Menec along a 112-mile ...

Even the Badger Trust acknowledges this ... it will be divisive. Some of the "anti-cull fraternity" are already calling for boycotts and sanctions to "hit the farmers where it hurts", in their ...

He said: "The advert referred to the fact that removing more than 70% of the badger population in the cull areas of Gloucestershire and Somerset is a virtual eradication of a much-loved species in ...

A badger conservation group has been carrying out door-to-door leaflet drops in a bid to get residents to lobby Natural England against the planned culling of badgers. The leaflets, entitled ...

But Victoria Vyvyan, the president of the Country Land and Business Association, said it appeared “strangely callous” of the party to favour the anti-badger cull lobby over the farmers who are ...

A badger, for those not acquainted with the ... who posted a video on YouTube calling for a stop to culling. An anti-culling petition drew hundreds of thousands of signers, and there's an online ...

Meanwhile, the debate in the House of Commons—which had no legislative muscle to it anyway—turned out to be a disappointment for the anti-culling side. The Labour Party demand that badger ...

The second controversial badger cull has begun across Somerset and Gloucestershire, as the government's four year scheme to attempt to control the spread of bovine TB using marksmen continues.

A dozen people are walking from Gloucester to Cheltenham on day one of the march A group of anti-badger cull campaigners have begun a 10-day walk to raise money and awareness for their cause.

He said: "The advert referred to the fact that removing more than 70% of the badger population in the cull areas of Gloucestershire and Somerset is a virtual eradication of a much-loved species in ...