End Badger Persecution
With their stripey faces, twinkling eyes, and starring roles in many children’s books and films, badgers are one of the most beloved of British mammals – but also one of the most persecuted.
The Protection of Badgers Act 1992 makes it an offence to wilfully kill, injure, cruelly ill-treat, or take a badger (or to disturb an active sett), but badgers are still suffering at the hands of badger baiters, hunt terriermen, the shooting industry, and badger cull contractors.
Protect the Wild is working hard to tackle badger persecution.
- We have written numerous Substack posts detailing our reasons for opposing the badger cull (see links below)
- We have commissioned a series of powerful animations designed to highlight the cruelty and ineffectiveness of the badger cull.
- Through our Equipment Fund we’re proud to have been providing trail cams and night vision optics to front-line groups taking direct action in the field to protect badgers.
- We’re syndicating the blog posts of the Badger Crowd – a team of specialised ecologists and scientists who focus on badgers and the cull.
- We created Protectors of the Wild, a free resource that looks in detail at the laws protecting badgers and other animals. Protectors explains what we can do if we see a wildlife crime taking place.
- We called on the incoming Labour government to honour its promise to stop the badger cull. Over 102k supporters signed our government epetition!
READ OUR RECENT SUBSTACK ARTICLES ON BADGERS
Over 230,000 Badgers Killed for Nothing: DEFRA Review Confirms the Real Cause of TB (September 2025)
Bureau of Bern Convention tells UK: End the Cull (August 2025)
Badger dies overnight in snare on shooting estate (July 2025)
247,880 Dead: Badger Cull Hits New High as New Study Dismantles Government Rationale (June 2025)
BREAKING: The science behind the badger cull just collapsed (June 2025)