Minister for Agriculture Martin Heydon has made some strong statements around TB, as a money-making industry in the past week ...

Government officials have given the go-ahead for a fresh round of badger culling, starting immediately — against advice from ...

Farmers in England will be issued licences to cull badgers in TB hotspots under proposals published by the Government today to help tackle spiralling rates of the disease in cattle. The plans put ...

The government has authorised a new wave of badger culling across England, defying the advice of its own chief scientific ...

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In five years of the cull, around 34,000 badgers have been trapped and shot in and around areas at high risk from TB. But Government officials could now allow culling licences across almost half ...

LONDON, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Britain says a cull of badgers meant to reduce cattle tuberculosis will begin in two areas, but the exact locations are being kept secret for security reasons. The ...

In 2011, the UK government decided to cull badgers in TB hotspots in England because - after re-interpreting the Krebs evidence - it concluded badgers could be contributing to the spread of bovine TB.

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Bovine TB is an infectious, mainly respiratory, disease, where bacteria can be spread between animals to cattle. A map drawn up in late 2016 before the cull started showed what areas of Wales were ...

Killing badgers to stop the spread of TB is like burning witches to protect your crops, Sir Brian May has claimed. The Queen star, 77, has been a prominent campaigner against the badger cull for ...

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.