Government officials have given the go-ahead for a fresh round of badger culling, starting immediately – against advice from their own scientific chief. Natural England is believed to have authorised ...

Intensive badger culling to tackle TB in livestock will be gradually phased out and a cattle vaccine for the disease will be deployed, the government has announced. The next phase of the government's ...

A prominent ecologist says an independent assessment of the latest study on badger culling is a “bombshell” takedown of the government’s evidence used to justify the policy. Tom Langton, a badger ...

A shortage of vets and vaccines is among the challenges facing the country, as concern mounts about the danger posed by ...

Brian May has continued his impassioned campaign against badger culling, branding the practice “morally indefensible” in a new documentary. The Queen guitarist, who previously led a funeral parade ...

Badgers will be killed in a pilot project to stamp out tuberculosis in cattle, it has been announced. Farmers welcomed a controversial decision by the Welsh Assembly Government to approve a cull in a ...

Research published this week could help resolve the thirty-year UK controversy over the role of European badgers Meles meles in the spread of bovine tuberculosis (TB). One paper, published in Nature, ...

The prospect of a badger cull to combat the soaring epidemic of tuberculosis in cattle has diminished after MPs recommended any future slaughter should be strictly limited. The Environment, Food and ...

STONELEIGH (Reuters) - Farmers said on Friday they would launch a legal challenge if the farm ministry rejected as expected next week a badger cull to help tackle bovine tuberculosis in cattle. Farm ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Badger culling is not an effective way to curb the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in cattle -- and some culling methods might actually aid the spread of the disease, scientists said ...