The RSPCA is appealing for information after a dying badger was found with a gunshot wound to the head. A member of the ...

Captured on a quiet road in St Leonards-on-Sea, England by British photographer Ian Wood, the badger appears to glance up at a graffiti version of itself designed by the mysterious artist.

Badger culling has been used to contain bovine tuberculosis but will end in England within five years as part of a shift in the fight against the disease, the government said last year.

A council has reaffirmed its opposition to badger culling as a means of eradicating bovine tuberculosis (TB). Oxfordshire County Council last year voted to end badger culling on council-owned land.

injure or take a badger. While badgers are still culled in certain areas, the RSPCA says only those with a special licence from Natural England are permitted to cull them. Mr Tolley added ...