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Badger Trust promotes the conservation and welfare of badgers and the protection of their setts and habitats for the public benefit. We are the leading voice for badgers and represent and support around 60 local voluntary badger groups. Badger Trust provides expert advice on all badger issues and works closely with Government, the police and other conservation and welfare organisations.
Badger Trust gives DEFRA notice of legal challenge.
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Opportunity to comment on pilot trials in West Gloucestershire and West Somerset
Badgers in the firing line in parts of Somerset, Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester. Click here to see the new Badger Protection League leaflet (You can find the link to the 38 Degrees Petition by scrolling further down this page).
BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS IN CATTLE AND BADGERS:
Q AND A
1ST JULY 2011
Please sign the 38degrees petition to help stop the cull of badgers. Please click on link: www.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/badgers-petition#petition
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News
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Nonsense in the News. Minister's wild assertions peddled by wildlife magazine |
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The Badger Trust has countered a series of unsustainable assertions attributed to Mr James Paice, the Minister for Environment and Food in an article in the BBC Wildlife Magazine of May 2012. |
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Cattle TB measures better late than never – but still not enough |
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The Coalition Government has – at last – toughened up cattle movement restrictions to contain the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) [1]. The Badger Trust called for precisely this four years ago [2], but Defra has only acted now that the European Commission has threatened to withhold £25 million of bovine TB funding. |
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Letter of Formal Complaint to S4C |
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I am writing on behalf of the Badger Trust to complain about Y Byd Ar Bedwar broadcast by S4C on April 17th 2012. |
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TV Programme Encouraged Crime, Trust Complains |
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The Badger Trust has made a formal complaint to the Welsh TV Channel (S4C) claiming that the channel breached Ofcom rules [1] about broadcasting material likely to encourage crime or to lead to disorder. This is in advance of a complaint to Ofcom itself. |
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