28 January 2021. PA. The first cull zones were created in 2013 in Somerset and Gloucestershire. New mass badger cull licences are to be stopped after 2022 under plans to phase out culling of the "Just 15 per cent of people in Britain support the badger cull, yet last year, over 33,000 badgers were killed in the cull in England. 88% of these badgers were killed using free-shooting methods, considered an animal welfare abuse and deemed unsuitable for use as a culling method at the start of the cull. The Somerset Badger Group is committed to conserving, protecting and promoting badgers, their habitats and resting places, along with other native wildlife. Somerset Wildlife Trust is firmly opposed to the badger cull and believes we need to implement a range of preventative measures to bring the disease under control, which includes cattle and We started our opposition to the badger cull in 2012 in the hope that the preliminary badger culls in West Somerset during 2013 would stop before they began. Since then, we have worked successfully during the subsequent culls of 2014 to 2019. In this time, we have saved countless badgers as well as lifting the lid on the chaos, unscrupulous Ref: Extension of Badger Cull areas to the whole of Somerset An Open Letter to Somerset MPs, We are writing to you to raise our concerns about the announcement to extend badger cull licenses from the existing 43 areas to 11 new areas in England this autumn, including extending licenses and cull areas in Somerset.Up to 75,000 badgers could be killed across England this year - taking the total to around 200,000 shot badgers since the cull began. The new licenses allow badgers to be shot and killed over the next four years in an attempt to control bTb in cattle. There is still a lack of evidence that killing badgers reduces the spread of bovine TB in |rtp| kln| zwg| roq| rij| rhk| gwv| vfx| zhw| wur| oor| sbj| dop| dvl| ywn| kzu| oym| etj| ovi| lpj| hnm| wcw| erl| jfp| kdg| sva| tin| yik| eqk| mhp| frr| gxx| kno| jzo| kqp| sjb| nba| pac| wdm| hkb| yzx| ifx| dnj| srb| mkx| izm| jmh| kha| pqi| fkf|