Badger groups from Britain, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, France and Holland have joined forces in a bid to strengthen legislation at both member state and EU level. The new network -Euro Badger – will promote the importance of the species to biodiversity and habitat protection, and will lobby for alternative policies to culling in efforts to reduce bovine tuberculosis (bTB).
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The group’s first major initiative is putting together an EU country-by-country report on badgers. This will include populations and the threats to their survival, and will be launched in the European Parliament later in the year.