It’s official: badger culls were ‘ineffective and failed humaneness test’

Posted on the 28th February 2014

An independent scientific assessment of last year's pilot badger culls in parts of Gloucestershire and Somerset has concluded that they were not effective. And that more than 5 per cent of the shot badgers took longer than five minutes to die, thus failing the test for humaneness.

The government minister George Eustice told The Times that the government was not bound to heed the advice of the report and that it could approve a nationwide badger killing programme.

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Parliamentary debate on the use of dogs in laboratories

Yesterday, Michelle, our Head of Campaigns, headed into London to attend the debate on the government petition which urged ‘Ban immediately the use of dogs in scientific and regulatory procedures’.

Posted 29 Apr 2025

Camp beagle event - HoC April 2025