Badger cull

TB rates in one of UK's main badger cull areas soared by 130% last year

Experts challenge claim that strategy is cutting spread of tuberculosis in cattle

Natural England expected to license a third year of badger culling in Somerset and Gloucestershire

Despite opposition, badger culling is underway for a second year in an attempt to eradicate bovine TB

Princess Anne advocates a return to a controversial 1970 practice that was outlawed in 1982

Queen guitarist and badger campaigner says he wasn't allowed to mention cull on ITV or BBC

Now it’s an 'omnivoreshambles’ as West Country farmers fight shy of higher-than-expected costs

Meanwhile, police chief warns badger culls will be risk to public safety because of presence of protesters

Trial badger culls are to go ahead within weeks, but wildlife groups are mobilising