Badger culling is unlikely to be a cost-effective way of helping control cattle TB in Britain, according to research published today in PLoS ONE. The authors of the study, from Imperial College London ...

Researchers have discovered the most likely reason why localised culling of badgers (Meles meles) has failed to control bovine tuberculosis (TB) in British cattle. Published online by the British ...

Malcolm Bennett has received funding from DEFRA and wildlife and farming charities to investigate the role of badgers in the epidemiology of TB on the edge of the cattle epidemic. He also supervises ...

The study indicates the practice drives the surviving creatures to cover 61% more land each month than before the cull began. Researchers from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and Imperial ...

A new study has found that culling drives badgers to roam 61% further afield -- helping to explain why the practice, intended to reduce bovine TB transmission, can sometimes exacerbate the problem ...

Culling badgers to reduce the incidence of bovine tuberculosis (TB) among farm cattle may in fact worsen the spread of the disease, according to a study of the disease's prevalence among different ...

The slapstick sketch carries a serious message as the pair come out of retirement to deliver a damning verdict on a bid by farmers to kill 100,000 of the animals in a bid to prevent the spread of ...

European badgers can catch and spread the form of tuberculosis that strikes mainly cattle, but farmers and animal enthusiasts have debated whether killing badgers would protect herds. Two studies now ...

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 ...

In Herefordshire wildlife campaigners claim any badger cull would not help support local curlew population - this year, once ...

The second controversial badger cull has begun across Somerset and Gloucestershire, as the government's four year scheme to attempt to control the spread of bovine TB using marksmen continues. The ...

The controversial culling of thousands of badgers to prevent them spreading disease to cattle risks backfiring. It turns out the animals travel much further around the countryside when culling begins, ...