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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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	CONFUSION IN WALES AS CATTLE TB RATES DROP	6 Aug 2010
	Only half as many cattle were slaughtered in Dyfed because of bovine TB in the first four months of this year than in the same period last year [1] with no badgers killed.

	Operation Meles	5 Aug 2010
	Scottish Badgers and The Scottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SSPCA), with the support of the Badger Trust and other partners, has initiated Operation Meles*, a UK-wide programme to achieve consistency in recording and reporting crime against the protected species.

	What the Minister failed to tell the farmers	26 Jul 2010
	The Agriculture Minister thinks “there is not a country in the world that's got rid of TB without addressing the problem in wildlife". But there is. It was the UK, says the Badger Trust.

	Victory for badgers on all counts as Court of Appeal declares proposed Welsh badger cull unlawful	13 Jul 2010
	Campaigners were celebrating today as the Court of Appeal handed down judgment finding the proposed Welsh badger cull to be unlawful on all three grounds they raised on appeal.

	SIX-FIGURE BILL TO UPHOLD WILDLIFE LAW	13 Jul 2010
	The Badger Trust has been encouraged to see that the law can be effective in the protection of badgers after the Court of Appeal reversed a judicial review supporting the Welsh Assembly Government’s decision to kill the animals.

	THE BADGER TRUST	5 Jul 2010
	Judgment in the appeal brought by the Badger Trust against the High Court’s refusal to grant a judicial review on badger culling is expected to be handed down in Cardiff in the week beginning July 12.

	BOVINE TB DOWN IN WALES - AND NO DEAD BADGERS	30 Jun 2010
	Bovine tuberculosis in Wales has been declining without badgers being killed – including in Dyfed where badger culling is proposed. The Badger Trust emphasises this as the Court of Appeal gathers in Cardiff to consider the legality of the Welsh Assembly Government’s decision to kill badgers in its efforts to eradicate the disease.

	Badger Vaccination Trials Truncated	25 Jun 2010
	The Badger Trust is disappointed to see the reduction in the scope of field trials of the injectable vaccine for badgers against bovine tuberculosis, and emphasises that no one should leap to conclusions about the effectiveness or otherwise of vaccination in the light of this now truncated and consequently distorted project.

	New Venue for Badger Trust Appeal Hearing	22 Jun 2010
	The Lord Chief Justice has ordered that the Badger Trust’s appeal against the refusal of the High Court to grant a judicial review of the Welsh Assembly Government’s decision to kill badgers should be held in Cardiff on June 30th starting at 10.30am.

	Badger Trust Challenges Spread Claim	15 Jun 2010
	Following a news item in the influential Farmers’ Weekly on June 4 the Badger Trust is writing to the magazine and to the National Beef Association for validation of a claim in a report that bovine TB was spreading in badgers at 10 miles a year.

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