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A Badger Trust statement [56] indicated the 2012/13 badger cull had these specific aims: Determine whether badger cull targets for each pilot area can be met within six weeks with at least 70% of the badger population removed in each cull area; Determine whether shooting "free-running" badgers at night is a humane way of killing badgers.
Campaigners say the cull should be halted immediately but farmers say the move will jeopardise the ability to control tuberculosis in cattle. No new badger culling licences will be issued after ...
The proposals for targeted culls within the existing high risk and adjacent areas come as the policy of widespread intensive culling is phased out. Plans for targeted badger culling to continue in ...
Badger Trust is carrying out a national survey of badger numbers, in light of the drop in population due to badger culling, "State of the Badger" Report. Trials started in 2024 in Somerset, Lancashire and Hampshire, with a planned roll out throughout England and Wales in 2025-26. Local Badger Groups are the direct action side of the Badger Trust.
A 2024 report by the Animal Law Foundation found there to be one local authority inspector for every 878 farms in England, Scotland and Wales and that in 2022 and 2023, 2.5% of the more than 300,000 UK farms were inspected at least once. [6] The minimum age for buying a pet, or winning one as a prize, is 16 without parental accompaniment. [5]
Badger culling will take place in 40 zones across England this year and see between 33,045 and a maximum of 75,930 badgers killed to tackle Bovine TB.
Also, it made an excise licence necessary to deal with game. [4] The Game Act 1831 protects game birds in England and Wales. Game licences were abolished in England and Wales on 1 August 2007, as well as the need for game dealers licences, and the law changed to allow selling game, except hare, year round.
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