The Protection of Badgers Act 1992

The Protection of Badgers Act 1992 (c.51) provides legislation that makes it a serious offence to kill, injure or take a badger, or to damage or interfere with a sett unless a licence is obtained from a statutory authority. But in spite of this, badger baiting continues.

This is law, underpinned by UK legislation and applies to, for example, farmers and gamekeepers. Read about it here http://badgerland.co.uk/animals/legal/legal1992.html

Perhaps our incumbent government should pay rather more heed to legislation that precedes it before extending and wide-spreading the current cull of badgers in England...