Badgers crossing water, video

This video from the Netherlands says about itself:

Extraordinary situation where badgers walk to and fro an island using floating trees. Filmed with automatic wildlife camera Bolyguard 5.0. Jaap Mulder.

Badger culling in Britain: here.

UK badger culling plans could kill tens of thousands of the animals, worsen the cattle tuberculosis problem, and put the country in breach of a European wildlife treaty, advisers have warned: here.

Welsh Assembly abandons badger cull in favour of vaccination programme: here.

Caroline Spelman’s proposed badger cull to halt the rise of TB in cattle will in fact spread the disease, campaigners will tell the High Court tomorrow: here.

Often described as cute, American Badgers are actually ferocious predators that can claw through dirt faster than a person using a shovel: here.

The Ulster Farmers Union (UFU) has called on any of its members who are aware of badger baiting on their farms to report it to the police: here.

Related articles

• Spotlight intensifies on badger culls with 7% rise in number of TB cattle slaughtered (independent.co.uk)
• Badger cull: public won’t stand for this tragedy says Brian May (theweek.co.uk)
• Pilot badger culls to go ahead (bbc.co.uk)
• RSPCA: Badger culls are ‘senseless’ (itv.com)
• Controversial badger cull given the go-ahead despite outrage from animal welfare groups (express.co.uk)
• Badger cull goes ahead but it will cost £4m (telegraph.co.uk)
• Badger Culls – What does this say about human nature? (naturestage.org)