Badger culls are dividing England’s rural communities. Farmers say badgers spread deadly disease to cattle, but activists call the yearly killings of thousands of badgers cruel and ineffective.

“The government has chosen to authorise another year of badger culling in the face of a legal challenge, scientific ...

Badger-Killing Begins Again in England, Despite Evidence it Doesn't Help Cattle. Published Sep 10, 2014 at 10:39 AM EDT Updated Feb 28, 2016 at 11:15 AM EST.

Badger culling will end in England within five years as part of a shift in the fight against bovine tuberculosis, the government said on Friday. As part of the new TB eradication strategy, ...

The survey indicated that the estimated total number of badger setts in England and Wales is now 88% higher than in the mid-1980s, suggesting an average annual increase rate of 2.6%.

The number of badger setts in England has increased by more than 100 per cent in the last 25 years, a new report found. By Miranda Prynne 23 January 2014 • 2:29pm .

The Government has said it will not be extending the badger cull and retains its commitment to end the practice before the ...

But the badger question stands out in one distinctive way: it has been systematically studied for more than a decade by scientists at some of England’s top universities.

England is about to extend its badger cull policy to five new areas of the country, proving that only that science is a dead letter to May's conservative government as it was to Cameron's. While ...

Badger culling will end in England within five years as part of a shift in the fight against bovine tuberculosis, the government said on Friday. As part of the new TB eradication strategy, ...