DEFRA fund a range of research work with the Central Science Laboratory's (CSL) research team based at Woodchester Park. The following amount of funding has been provided by DEFRA for the ecological and epidemiological study of the badger population at Woodchester Park:
1997-98: £260,877
1998-99: £278,408
Between 1999-2000 and 2002-03 the study was supported by two DEFRA projects. It has not been possible to disentangle the amounts spent on the ecological and epidemiological study of the badger population at Woodchester Park in 1999-2000 and 2000-01, however CSL estimate the following for 2001-02 and 2002-03:
2001-02: £268,000
2002-03: £268,000
Between 2004-05 and 2006-07 the project that supported this study also supported an investigation of perturbation. The following figures are an estimate provided by CSL of the amount of funding used for the study of the Woodchester Park badger population alone:
2003-04: £273,000
2004-05: £298,000
2005-06: £288,000
2006-07: £294,000