#badger cull

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Over 80% of badgers culled in government TB programme found to be free from the disease

More than 8,000 badgers destroyed by DAFM in a nation-wide crackdown to eradicate bovine tuberculosis were found to be infection free follow

More than 8,000 badgers destroyed by DAFM in a nation-wide crackdown to eradicate bovine tuberculosis were found to be infection free following post-mortems. Over 80% OF badgers culled by the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine (DAFM) tested negative for TB, The Journal Investigates can reveal. Figures obtained via DAFM post-mortem reports show that of the 10,301 culled badgers submitted for testing in the last five years, 8,211 were found to be clear of mycobacterium bovis – the bacteria that causes bovine tuberculosis (bTB). The healthy badgers were destroyed between 2020 and April 2025 as part of the State’s bTB Eradication Programme, currently under immense strain from high cattle rates of the disease across the country. As reported by The Journal Investigates, the TB crisis is having a devastating toll on farming communities across the country. Every year, thousands of badgers are killed or vaccinated after being snared in controversial DAFM traps in a bid to control the livestock spread of the highly infectious disease. Last year alone, a total of 7,319 badgers were culled by DAFM – the highest number recorded in the last 10 years. In total, over 66,000 badgers have been destroyed since 2014 in the controversial culling programme, despite a 2018 government pledge to phase out the killings in favour of vaccination However, we can reveal that there has been a drop in the number of badgers being vaccinated, and a rise in the number being culled – even in designated DAFM vaccine areas.

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[spinnysocks]

hi!! if you're from the UK, please help to stop the badger cull!

HERE (website link) is the petition page on the Badger Trust website! the site provides plenty of information about badgers in the uk and what the cull is about.

for those who prefer visual or audio information, Here (video link) is a short video describing the latest news of Labour bringing back the badger cull on Protect The Wild's YouTube channel.

also for those who prefer visual or audio information, i recommend watching the BBC documentary “Brian May: The Badgers, the Farmers and Me” which goes into depth on this topic! it is 59 minutes long.

to anyone not in the UK, i politely ask if you could share this around to help protect this important and iconic british species!!

[rumade]

Lino printing cards for hunt sabs to sell for a fundraiser

What are hunt sabs?

Hunt saboteurs are groups of people who have taken it upon themselves to stop the destruction of wildlife. In the UK they mainly focus on fox hunting, which sadly still goes on despite being outlawed in 2005. They also have been heavily involved with disrupting the badger cull, an initiative where government money is being used to slaughter badgers in the hope to stopping bovine TB- there is no scientific back up for this cull. Additionally, hunt sabs may target people hare coursing, setting snares, or targeting corvids.

They are our wildlife's front line defence against unjust slaughter.

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Badger Cull Protest

LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 01: A campaigner in badger costume poses with a Brian May Red Special edition guitar during a protest against the Government's proposed badger cull in England, outside the Department for Food and Rural Affairs on May 1, 2013 in London, England. The anti-cull protest, which has received the support of Queen guitarist Brian May, was backed by the 'Animal Aid' campaign. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images) (x) (x)

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Tory government in deep s**t after leaked document reveals 'huge betrayal' of British public | The Canary

This isn't just indefensible, it borders on sadistic

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Peter Street, Manchester. 

[acti-veg]

Badger culling to be replaced by vaccine use

Trials of a vaccine for cattle will take place, while more badgers will also be vaccinated.

[m4rcellinos]

So, I’m doing a course wherein one of the topics on the assessment is whether badger cull zones in the UK actually affect the rate of bovine TB in cattle. Me, being the stats nerd I am, collected data for all of the cull zones and the rest of the UK. I’m gonna do 1 more calculation to find out the official correlation rate, but BOY, looking at that chart, I think I know what that result is gonna be.

Update from like a minute later: I actually decided to find the difference between the two to see if the culling actually made any positive difference to the % of cattle killed due to bTB. Nearly all of them were in the negatives, meaning the UK, without doing anything, has lower bTB rates than the badger cull zones as a whole. If I dare say, oof.