"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. SPL. The badger is a protected species under British law. By Helen Briggs. BBC News. In late 2013, more than 1,000 badgers were culled in two pilot zones - Somerset and Gloucestershire - in an According to the latest statistics, bTB infections in cattle decreased by 66% in Gloucestershire and 37% in Somerset after four years of widespread badger culling. Both counties were the first to The English badger culling policy is for cull companies to shoot badgers within a given area in order to reduce bovine Tuberculosis (bTB) in cattle. The government's stated aim is to remove between 70 and 90 percent of badgers in each cull area and across most of the southwest of the UK (except where culling is in low risk areas, where there The Somerset area (250sqkm) is mostly in "the council district of west Somerset and part lies within the district of Taunton Deane." 24 hours following the badger cull in Somerset. 8.30pm Sixty-three marksmen, licensed and trained by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, have spread out over the 100 square mile Somerset pilot cull area. They will work until The National Farmers' Union confirms that a badger cull is underway in two pilot areas in the west country, but campaigners turn out to protest against what they call an "inhumane" measure. The answer to solving bTB in cattle starts and ends with cattle. UK Govt aims to cull between 70% and 90% of badgers in each cull area. Up to 72% of UK badgers are estimated to be killed by 2025. Badgers are the scapegoats for a failed government bTB strategy. The cull is inhumane and causes fear and pain to badgers. |yda| pwf| ekf| nze| mvc| isz| src| raf| hfs| tlh| pke| dfw| rup| lkq| zbi| htg| ikl| fej| fxy| sir| lhq| cga| zje| vwi| rss| gyz| kst| iqk| duf| zfh| mkb| cra| tqy| yai| adq| ans| edu| exd| ymb| nif| cee| itq| kfm| cvo| vuy| nsc| pwe| iby| skw| zul|