REVEALED: Farm inspection findings undermine case for badger cull

In England, badgers have been slaughtered in their hundreds of thousands since 2013 for the alleged role they play in spreading bovine tuberculosis (bTB) to cows. Now, freedom of information requests, seen by Protect the Wild, have revealed the state of biosecurity on farms participating in the cull. They show that a significant proportion of […]
Is the Badger Cull Working? Ask AI!

Over the last year Protect the Wild has been proud to work with Tom Langton, a highly-respected ecologist who has been a leading figure in the fight against the government’s slaughter of over a quarter of a million badgers to protect the dairy industry. Tom is a major contributor to the Badger Crowd website and […]
Labour pledges to end badger cull

The government’s annual badger cull is nearing an end, at least for 2023. For almost two months, cull contractors have been out in force, luring England’s badgers into fields with peanuts and then shooting them dead. Meanwhile, Labour has announced that it will end the cull for good if elected. At the start of the […]
Protecting the Wild Eqipment Fund #6: Derbyshire Against The Cull

We set up the Protecting the Wild Equipment Fund earlier in the summer this year to help put ‘eyes in the field‘, empowering people to protect British wildlife. We set the fund up because we know that many people who monitor are largely unfunded volunteers and often have no umbrella organisation to support them. That […]