Home / Consent granted for badger cull licences

Consent granted for badger cull licences

Landowners and farmers from two areas in Gloucestershire and Somerset are now able to apply for licences to cull badgers as part of the Government’s efforts to tackle the impact of bovine TB.

Consent granted for badger 
 cull licences
ShootingUK
ShootingUK 27 January 2012

Agriculture minister Jim Paice confirmed that the pilot schemes would use controlled shooting.

He said: ?Nobody wants to cull badgers, but no country in the world where wildlife carries TB has eradicated the disease in cattle without tackling it in wildlife too.?

Related Articles

Rural concerns risk being sidelined in devolution shake-up
News

Rural concerns risk being sidelined in devolution shake-up

MPs warn that rural communities risk being overlooked as England undergoes its biggest shake-up of local government in half a century.

By ShootingUK
Hunt sabs' manifesto of ideology and spite
News

Hunt sabs' manifesto of ideology and spite

Hunt Saboteurs demand five-year jail terms for trail-hunters in manifesto condemned as "morally bankrupt", while Reform pledges to reverse Labour’s ban.

By ShootingUK