Wildlife groups resume badger vaccination in edge areas

Wildlife Trusts in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, and Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire have resumed vaccinating badgers against bovine TB in so-called “edge areas” in an attempt to control the disease without the need for culling. The move follows the suspension of the official Badger Edge Vaccination Scheme in England early last year in response to a worldwide shortage of the BCG vaccine. Wales suspended its vaccination programme at the end of 2015. See also: Somerset badger cull policing costs rose by 26% in […]