West Wales Badger Group

The following photographs emphasise just what culling a Badger means. Badgers are trapped in cages and wait around for many hours waiting to be shot.

These are ministery cages,set by the ministery of agriculture at the time. The Badgers have been trapped and await the men to come back and shoot them.

The Badgers in the cages spent hours and sometimes days in them awaiting their deaths. The cages were open to all the elements and the Badgers spent many hours trying to get out. As can be seen from these photographs the Badgers have rubbed and abraided themselves against the hard netting of the cages, injuring themselves in doing so.

Some of the Badgers trapped in the cages were lactating sows. The cubs had actually tried to reach their mothers to obtain milk.
Trapping Badgers is indescriminate in its action. A lactating sow is not the only one to die (be culled). The young cubs left behind simply starve to death as well.
When a Badger is culled (killed) it may be healthy, a lactating mother, a growing youngster or strong healthy adult regardless.
Culling just means killing.

Ruth and her friend, Heathcliff found this scene of awaiting death. So disgusted were they by it, they trashed the cages and released the Badgers back to the wild.