Up to 10,000+ badgers are tortured and killed every year in illegal baiting across the UK—dragged from their homes and torn apart by dogs. Despite being protected by law, this brutal bloodsport continues, hidden beneath the countryside.

Gangs deliberately target badger setts during peak season, when mothers are nursing their young. Dogs are sent underground to locate them, the earth is dug out, and the badger is pulled into a violent attack it cannot escape.

This is organised, repeated cruelty. Badgers suffer devastating injuries, often over prolonged periods, before dying from blood loss or exhaustion. Yet the penalties still fail to reflect the severity of this violence.

Sign now if you agree that penalties for badger baiting should match the cruelty inflicted and those responsible must face the strongest possible punishment.