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 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.
And we are calling on the new Labour government to honour its promise to stop the badger cull. Join us and sign a letter to the Prime Minister, Defra Secretary, and Farming Minister today!
READ RECENT ARTICLES ABOUT THE CULL ON OUR SUBSTACK:
Labour scraps mass cull, but Badger culling still scheduled until 2026 (August 2024)
SHOCKING MOVE: Labour expands badger cull (August 2024)
Badger Cull: Labour has a great opportunity to reshape wildlife policy (July 2024)
Labour: cull ‘ineffective’ but will continue anyway? (June 2024)
THE KILLING CONTINUES: Defra issue new badger cull licences (June 2024)
