AN award-winning initiative to prevent badger-baiting is looking to help Fermanagh fight back against bloodsports. Operation Brockwatch – a scheme launched by the Ulster Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (USPCA) and the Northern Ireland Badger Group – recently received a special commendation at the National Wildlife Crime Prevention Conference for their badger sett monitoring work in […]
Badgers get the blame for huge losses to dairy farmer
A Local farmer who suffered the loss of almost 200 livestock due to tuberculosis (TB) has called for action to be taken on the ‘huge issue’ of badgers infecting dairy herds in Fermanagh.