18th October 2025
From Viva:
FINALLY! After more than 230,000 badgers have been cruelly killed, the badger cull is finally ending in 2025.
Speaking during a Westminster Hall debate on 13 October, triggered by Protect the Wild’s petition, Defra secretary Angela Eagle confirmed:
“I will be clear from the outset that this Government are committed to ending the badger cull. We stand by that commitment, and I say again that the badger cull is ending.â€
The senseless killing of badgers has been cruel and ineffective.
The government aims to replace culling with a combination of enhanced cattle testing, better farm biosecurity and mass badger and cattle vaccination, as part of a strategy to eradicate bTB in England by 2038.
Thank you to Protect the Wild for rallying public support to trigger the debate in Parliament!
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