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This section contains an archive of news about badgers in the last few months. It mainly includes Press Releases and other information about our campaign to prevent a cull of badgers. It also contains information about our action to prevent persecution of badgers and our successes in dealing with injured and orphaned badgers and their return to the wild.

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	Specialists like Devon farmer can identify diseased setts, but often lack academic qualifications deemed necessary to do the job – a great pity’	20 Jan 2012
	SUCH RURAL MYTHS as this are increasingly prevalent. The reality, says the Badger Trust, is that it is virtually impossible even for highly qualified scientists, let alone lay individuals, to detect infection in live, uncaged animals in the field.

	Badger Killing Trial is Rigged - and Useless	19 Jan 2012
	The Coalition Government says its culling trials will be science-led, but it has rigged the pilots from the start.

	Nonsense in the News	17 Jan 2012
	The Rt Hon. David Cameron, the Prime Minister said on BBC Countryfile [1]: “When you’ve got all this evidence that culling should be part of a balanced packet of measures do you just sweep it under the carpet and announce a further review or do you get on and make this work . . ''

	BADGER PERSECUTORS JAILED FOR BAITING Badger Trust joins other leading wildlife organisations in condemning cruelty in the countryside	12 Jan 2012
	As seven criminals were being sentenced at Scarborough for causing the “horrific and barbaric” deaths of two badgers ripped apart by dogs, the Badger Trust was one of 15 leading wildlife organisations who sent a joint statement to a national newspaper in response to their article printed on 3rd January

	Badger Baiters Targeted	11 Jan 2012
	As part of an ongoing operation “Operation Meles” the public are being asked to be on the alert for any suspicious behaviour they see at or near badger setts they may know about.

	Why pilot culls will fly in the face of science	4 Jan 2012
	The New Year greeting to England’s cattle farming industry could be an even bigger bill than they expect for badger culling in attempts to eradicate bovine tuberculosis (bTB).

	Seven guilty of "horrific and barbaric" badger deaths	22 Dec 2011
	Seven men who caused the “horrific and barbaric” deaths of two badgers ripped apart by dogs will be sentenced at Scarborough on January 10th 2012.

	Badger Trust 'very disappointed' over cull decision	14 Dec 2011
	The Badger Trust has been advised by Caroline Spelman, Secretary of State for the Environment, that she has decided to proceed with the two pilot culls to determine the efficacy and humaneness of the free-shooting of badgers

	Welsh Ministers must take their time	8 Dec 2011
	The Badger Trust strongly applauds the decision by the Welsh Government not to yield to pressure to make its announcement about badger culling until it is ready

	Trust welcomes cattle passport scheme	29 Nov 2011
	The Badger Trust warmly welcomes the Welsh Government’s decision to implement nationally a voluntary scheme for cattle passports to record when animals were last TB tested for bovine tuberculosis

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