The badger cull will end by the close of this season, Defra secretary Angela Eagle confirmed in parliament, marking the ...

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 ...

Jeremy Clarkson has had to cull the first calf born on Diddly Squat after his Cotswolds farm was struck by an outbreak of ...

After more than 230,000 badgers were killed under a controversial culling policy, the government has confirmed a new ...

eneath the vaulted ceiling of the Grand Committee Room, just off the echoing medieval splendour of Westminster Hall, the ...

Thousands more badgers face being shot in England this autumn despite a finding that the culls contravene an internationally ...

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, ...

Badger culling measures to halt the spread of bovine TB will go ahead this year, the Government has confirmed, despite calls from animal rights campaigners to cancel the scheme because of the ...

LONDON, Aug 27 (Reuters) - A cull of thousands of badgers began in southwestern England on Tuesday in a bid to slow the spread of a cattle disease with animal rights activists vowing to do everything ...

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 ...