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European badgers can be infected and transmit the disease to cattle, thereby posing a risk to the human food chain. Culling is used in parts of the UK to reduce the number of badgers and thereby reduce the incidence and spread of bTB that might infect humans. BTB spreads through exhalations and excretions of infected individuals.
Save Me is currently campaigning as Team Badger, a coalition of animal welfare organisations that have teamed up to fight the planned cull of badgers. The coalition consists of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, League Against Cruel Sports, Humane Society International/UK, Save Me, Stroud 100, Gloucestershire Against Badger Shooting, Animal Aid, Network for Animals ...
Badger Trust is carrying out a national survey of badger numbers, in light of the drop in population due to badger culling, "State of the Badger" Report. Trials started in 2024 in Somerset, Lancashire and Hampshire, with a planned roll out throughout England and Wales in 2025-26. Local Badger Groups are the direct action side of the Badger Trust.
The European badger (Meles meles), also known as the Eurasian badger, is a badger species in the family Mustelidae native to Europe and West Asia and parts of Central Asia.It is classified as least concern on the IUCN Red List, as it has a wide range and a large, stable population size which is thought to be increasing in some regions.
A "specially protected wild animal" is: a badger, bat, wild cat, dolphin, dormouse, hedgehog, pine marten, otter, polecat, shrew or red squirrel. [ 5 ] The law defines certain other species as vermin and landowners are permitted (or, in the case of wild rabbits, are required) to cull them.
European badger. Badgers are medium-sized short-legged omnivores in the superfamily Musteloidea.Badgers are a polyphyletic rather than a natural taxonomic grouping, being united by their squat bodies and adaptions for fossorial activity rather than by their ancestral relationships: Musteloidea contains several families, only two of which (the "weasel family" Mustelidae and the "skunk family ...
Paraceras melis, the badger flea, is an external parasite of the European badger (Meles meles). It has also been found on the fox ( Vulpes vulpes ), the dog ( Canis familiaris ), the cat ( Felis catus ), the European polecat ( Mustela putorius ), the mole ( Talpa europaea ) and the fallow deer ( Dama dama ).
Badgers range over a very wide area, because the earthworms that make up more than half their diet aren't very nutritious, so they have to find and eat lots and lots of them every night. The badgers mark their territory by spraying it with urine, so one tuberculous badger can produce very widespread puddles of pungent urine in a single night.