Sign up to FREE email alerts from Mirror - politics Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailThe badger cull will continue this year despite the coronavirus crisis, the Government has vowed. But, in a letter seen by the Mirror, Environment Minister Lord Gardiner confirmed the cull would go-ahead this autumn. The Tory peer said: “Tackling bovine TB (bTB) remains a top priority in this period of crisis. “The Government has recently stated that it intends to phase out badger culling and move to badger and cattle vaccination to lower bovine TB in cattle. “Rather than delay this process any further, it should bring an immediate halt to the badger cull during the Covid-19 pandemic and plan a rapid exit strategy from this cruel, costly and ineffective wildlife killing policy into 2021.”

Source: Daily Mirror May 01, 2020 18:01 UTC