Staffordshire Wildlife Trusts is deeply disappointed that thousands of healthy badgers will again be shot in this year’s expanded cull despite the Government’s promise to move away from lethal…

Today the Government announced that it will continue to issue licenses to kill badgers over the next four years. This will put 130,000 animals at risk of being shot.

The Government has bowed to pressure from the National Farmers Union and agreed to authorise the use of the highly damaging neonicotinoid thiamethoxam for the treatment of sugar beet seed in 2021…

Last week's news of the start of clinical trials of a cattle vaccine and skin test for bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in cattle appears to be a step in the right direction.

Staffordshire Wildlife Trust has welcomed news that work to clear an ancient woodland near Lichfield will not begin this spring – a vital time for wildlife – following a review by HS2 Ltd.

Experts at Staffordshire Wildlife Trust are frustrated with the Government’s timetable to end the Badger Cull, calling the latest update misleading.

The county’s largest nature conservation charity is calling for nature to be part of the solution following severe flooding which hit parts of Staffordshire in February.

Staffordshire Wildlife Trust is calling on the Government to halt the ineffective culling of badgers – and warned 2025 is too long to wait for a cattle vaccine to be made widely available.