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Badger News

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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click to view/download this PDF file (14KB)  Charity challenges farm union chief to withdraw accusations 25 Jun 2009  
   Comments by Welsh Farmers Union president Gareth Vaughan have been described by a leading wildlife charity as scurrilous and totally unfounded, offensive to tens of thousands of conservationists across Britain.  
click to view/download this PDF file (14KB)  Study finds "no evidence" that badgers give TB to cattle, says Badger Trust 30 Apr 2009  
   The Badger Trust strongly challenges claims by the Scottish Agricultural College (SAC) that "TB could be passed from badgers to cattle" through contact between cattle and badgers in the field[1].  
click to view/download this PDF file (1.35MB)  Pounds Shillings and Pence appeal for Orphaned Triplets. 29 Mar 2009  
   Badger Trust - Sussex launch appeal to help feed orphaned cubs.  
click to view/download this PDF file (16KB)  Badger Trust condemns "brutal" and "abhorrent" decision to kill badgers in Wales 24 Mar 2009  
   Badger Trust Cymru today described the decision to kill badgers in Wales to control bovine TB as the start of a "brutal pogrom",  
click to view/download this PDF file (13KB)  Badger TB vaccine project gets cautious welcome from Badger Trust 19 Mar 2009  
   A field trial of a bovine TB vaccine for badgers has been given a cautious welcome by the Badger Trust.  
click to view/download this PDF file (14KB)  National Audit Office backs Badger Trust on bovine TB testing and biosecurity 4 Mar 2009  
   The Badger Trust has welcomed a new National Audit Office (NAO) report into Defra's management of livestock diseases  
click to view/download this PDF file (51KB)  End law-breaking on bovine TB, Minister told 16 Feb 2009  
   Badger Trust has written to Jane Kennedy MP, Minister for Farming and the Environment, calling on her to immediately end England's policy of breaking current EU law on bovine TB testing  
click to view/download this PDF file (12KB)  NFU bovine TB ads were misleading, ASA rules 12 Feb 2009  
   National Farmers Union (NFU) adverts which implied that the spread of bovine TB was solely caused by badgers was "misleading" the Advertising Standards Authority has ruled  
click to view/download this PDF file (14KB)  Badger damage to crops is "of little economic consequence", reminds Badger Trust 28 Dec 2008  
   Badger Trust today flatly rejected claims in a new report that "reducing badger damage to crops is a priority"  
click to view/download this PDF file (16KB)  TB strain in veterinary nurse also affected cattle she tested, 23 Dec 2008  
   Cattle that a veterinary nurse tested for bovine TB had the same strain of bovine TB which infected her, doctors revealed ..  
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