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The past 50 years have seen a constantly shifting coalition of concern around the issue of badger protection in Britain, long predating any connection with bovine TB. This longstanding debate was reactivated during the mid-1960s, when campaigners drew attention to issues of badger digging and baiting. This chapter will explore the worlds of badger protection, exploring how a diverse and politically cross-cutting coalition came together to support this cause. It will also trace the changing nature of these campaigns as the news of tuberculous badgers spread, and then as MAFF started to cull them. In so doing, it will unpick the multiple motivations and modes of caring—about badgers, about people and about environments—which have contributed to this shifting pattern of alliance.

As we have already explored in Chap. 1, badgers have occupied an oddly significant role in British culture and politics since the late nineteenth century at least; and appear to have been involved in wildlife conflicts (conflicts between humans and animals and conflicts between humans about animals) for even longer.^{Footnote 1} This chapter will pick up the story of the Great British Badger Debate in the mid-1960s, when it was reignited by animal advocates drawing