News & Updates

Badger Trust’s important new report emphasises the need for a collaborative and evidence-based approach to tackling cattle TB.

Plans by Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) to introduce an English style badger cull in efforts to control bovine TB in cattle, have been thrown out by the High Court in a judgement released on 25th October.

Figures reveal a further 24,000 badgers could be killed under licence in the remainder of this year.

Born Free staff and supporters joined colleagues and friends from animal welfare groups to lobby MPs in Westminster to bring an immediate end to badger culling.

Care about badgers? Join us to lobby your MP to end the badger cull.

Born Free’s Head of Policy, Dr Mark Jones, has co-authored a report which investigates and challenges the Government’s claims that it is phasing out badger culling.

More than 210,000 badgers killed to date in shameful and misguided efforts to control bovine TB in cattle.

Born Free’s supports campaign to end the sale of illegal poison products in the UK aimed at killing protected species.

Rescue & Care Officer Flo Blackbourn reports on Born Free’s support of wildlife rescue centres across the UK.

The UK government has confirmed that as many as 67,801 badgers could be killed in 2022 under four year and supplementary cull licences. This could bring the total number of badgers killed under the cull policy since 2013 to over 200,000.