The best way to save the planet? Drop meat and dairy
George Monbiot
Farming livestock for food threatens all life on earth, and ‘free-range’ steak is the worst of all, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot
May 2018
Badger cull policing cost £800,000 in one county
Opponents of cull say cost of £1,000 per animal killed means it is wasteful as well as cruel
April 2018
'Very angry badger' causes part of Scottish castle to be closed
Repairs to masonry damaged by intruder put Craignethan’s cellar tunnel out of bounds to public
March 2018
Country diary
Country diary: concrete threat to badger lifted for now
Tempsford, Bedfordshire To us the entrance hole to the sett it is unfathomably small, for in our imaginations we big up the badger into a creature with the dimensions of a stripy bear
Badger cull faces review as bovine TB goes on rising
Campaigners call for investigation to take a retrospective, as well as prospective, view of the cull’s efficacy
Country diary
Country diary: flat feet, long in the claw. A warlike creature
Inshriach, Aviemore: Tracks revealed the badger and I had been cohabiting all this time. I just wasn’t looking hard enough
February 2018
Foie gras and badger culling would be banned under Labour proposals
Two men jailed for badger-baiting in Wales
January 2018
Devon police under fire for proposal to suspend badger protection law
Devon and Cornwall force’s idea to ease the pressure of policing the cull was termed ‘appalling’
December 2017
Country diary
County diary: lines made by walking
Wenlock Edge, Shropshire Thawing snow highlights the paths people – and animals – take through the landscape
Nearly 20,000 badgers culled in attempt to reduce bovine TB
Almost twice as many badgers have been killed this autumn, after massive expansion of the cull zones
Country diary
Country diary: quieter times for Badgeropolis
Dolbenmaen, Gwynedd This sett was, I think, first occupied in the early 1950s, its entrances concealed among dense rhododendron thickets
October 2017
Notebook
Take on an angry badger? I’d like to see the Ukip leader try
Patrick Barkham
Forget the harsh truths of Brexit, Henry Bolton has a badger-killing fantasy which suggests his party has given up on reality altogether, writes natural history writer Patrick Barkham
As badger culls begin, could one pioneering vet’s bovine TB test end the slaughter?
Research at a secret location in Devon may help eradicate bovine tuberculosis without a single badger being killed, says leading vet
Adventures in wild Britain
The inside track: how to spot the telltale signs of badgers, otters and more
Keen to find Britain’s wild creatures in their natural environments? Conservationist and tracking expert Simone Bullion explains how
September 2017
End the secrecy over badger cull zones
Letters: People must be told where the government’s badger culling programme will take place, say Jonathon Porritt, Mark Jones, Alick Simmons and Chris Cheeseman. Plus an alternative to shooting badgers suggested by David Hurry
Huge increase in badger culling will see up to 33,500 animals shot
Ministers say culls are vital for cutting TB infections in cattle but scientists say there is little evidence to support the policy
Country diary
Rude, erect and smothered in flies, this fungus has no shame
Country diary: Hawkstone Park, Shropshire The stinkhorn mushroom shares the smell of rotting flesh, making it irresistible to blowflies
August 2017
Another 1,000 badgers to be killed in Somerset and Gloucestershire
Critics say authorisation of supplementary culls shows the programme, which began four years ago, is not working
