{"id":509120,"date":"2026-04-02T15:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/509120\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T15:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:07:08","slug":"four-badgers-found-dead-after-being-shot-in-broadway-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/509120\/","title":{"rendered":"Four badgers found dead after being shot in Broadway woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first three badgers, discovered on the footpath on the north side of Buckland Wood, are believed to have been shot days before they were found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">PC Parker from Gloucestershire Constabulary&#8217;s Rural Crime Team said: &#8220;Badgers are protected by law and it is a criminal offence to intentionally capture, kill or injure a badger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This incident has understandably caused upset for the wildlife community and we want to do all we can to identify those responsible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Craig Fellowes MBE, wildlife crime manager and trainer for the Badger Trust, said badgers continue to face persecution in the UK, &#8220;despite clear laws prohibiting their shooting unless licensed&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first three badgers, discovered on the footpath on the north side of Buckland Wood, are believed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-509120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}