Policy paper

Advice to Natural England on setting minimum and maximum numbers of badgers to be culled in 2015

Setting the minimum and maximum numbers of badgers to be culled in West Somerset, West Gloucestershire and Dorset in 2015.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 28 August 2015

This was published under the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government

Documents

Setting the minimum and maximum numbers in Dorset for Year 1 of the badger cull

PDF, 98.9 KB, 8 pages

Setting the minimum and maximum numbers in West Gloucestershire and West Somerset for Year 3 of the badger cull

PDF, 142 KB, 11 pages

Details

These papers set out Defra’s advice to Natural England on setting minimum and maximum number of badgers to be culled in 2015. The advice covers West Somerset, West Gloucestershire and Dorset. It includes a description of the methods used by Defra for estimating the badger populations in these areas.

Published 28 August 2015