Cheshire East Council is to support a badger vaccination programme in the borough.
The authority will be partnering with Cheshire Badger Vaccination Programme (CBVP) to carry out the vaccinations.
The RSPCA has issued a warning to dog owners after a badger was rescued with horrific injuries from a suspected dog attack in Nantwich.
The badger was rescued by the RSPCA from a ditch by a canal in Baddiley Lane on Tuesday (October 27).
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council chiefs are to back badger vaccinations and take an extra step against culling on land leased out to farmers.
The authority already has a policy against badger culling taking place on its own land.
By Stephen Topping
Badger culling can now be banned on Cheshire East Council-owned farmland which is rented out – but only once the tenancies are renewed.
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
The policing of Cheshire’s badger cull has cost taxpayers more than £1.3 million in the past two years.
Figures released by Cheshire Police show the force’s cull operation cost £484,892.16 last year – following the £831,093.07 cost in 2017.
Cheshire Wildlife Trust bosses have voiced concerns over the Bovine TB Strategy Review led by Sir Charles Godfray.
The trust, welcoming recommendations for a changed emphasis in the fight to eradicate bovine tuberculosis (bTB), is unhappy over the review’s recommendations to continue badger culling.
Wildlife campaign groups have criticised Government plans for a badger cull in Cheshire.
Ministers have granted a licence for the culling of badgers which some blame for the spread of diseases like TB among farming livestock.
The badger vaccination programme is to be extended in Cheshire after more funding was secured by the Wirral & Cheshire Badger Group (W&CBG).
The charity’s programme began in 2014 on the Adlington Estate in Cheshire East.
Four men have been jailed after filming their dogs during a horrific attack on a badger sett and a fox near Nantwich. One RSPCA inspector said the attacks, which took place in Hankelow, were the “most appalling act of cruelty and barbaric fighting” he had ever seen.
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