What Would It Take?

 

If the badger cull was stopped immediately and anyone shooting, poisoning or snaring a badger has prosecuted to the extreme as a lesson to other offenders would it help badger extinction?  

No. 

Despite pledges to fight for the environment and wildlife local authorities such as Bristol City Council will not even consider wildlife over/underpasses such as exist around the world. Badgers would still die in high numbers due to cars and drivers who will not even stop to see whether they have killed the animal.   

So badger and other wildlife losses will be high.  Were local authorities to install wildlife over/underpasses and end badger culling it would probably take 30-40 years for PROTECTED badgers to start recovering.   No one wants to do any of this and the "animal loving British public" barely show any interest.

If a Labour government were voted in it would need to stop the culling. Stop all fox hunting and start to put money into wildlife road crossings. Sadly, Labour has not been seen as a party for the countryside.  It will take all of the above and greater police powers with no "secret deals" between high ranking police officers and a local hunt.  

So, yes, extinction.