High Court rejects Natural England bid to hike legal costs for campaigners challenging badger culling 19th October 2025 An attempt by Natural England to hike campaigners’ legal costs to challenge badger culling licences has been blocked by the… Read more >
Legal challenge against badger culling licences given green light to proceed 15th May 2025 A legal challenge by wildlife groups The Badger Trust and Wild Justice against the granting of badger culling licences has… Read more >
Important new study on Badger culling 18th March 2022 Today an important paper on Badger culling has been published in the journal Veterinary Record. The paper reports on new… Read more >
Badger Culling 1st January 2019 What is badger culling? Badgers (and their setts) are strictly protected by our wildlife legislation; the animal even has its… Read more >
Badger crowdfunder receives magnificent response 29th May 2025 We recently launched a crowdfunder to support the legal challenge we are taking, in partnership with our friends at The… Read more >
Taking the next step with our badger cull challenge 8th August 2024 Today we’ve announced we’re taking the next steps in our legal challenge of badger culls, alongside the Badger Trust. See… Read more >
The confusing Defra Badger consultation 17th April 2024 On Friday morning we asked you to spend about 20 minutes reviewing the current Defra Badger cull consultation. We are… Read more >
Wild Justice wins judicial review as Northern Ireland badger cull ruled unlawful 25th October 2023 Press release from Leigh Day (25 October 2023) Northern Ireland badger cull by shooting ruled unlawful in High Court A… Read more >