GB: Stop the badger cull

Update 24 October 2012: Britain has delayed a plan to shoot thousands of badgers to stop the spread of tuberculosis in cattle in the face of overwhelming public opposition to the cull...




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... call on the government to stop the planned cull of badgers on the following grounds:

· Over 70% of the badger population in large areas of the country will be killed, many of them healthy.

· The method of free-shooting badgers could cause severe to many thousands of badgers.

· Independent scientific studies have shown that culling would be of little help in reducing bovine TB, and even suggest that it could make things worse in some areas...

Source: Stop the badger cull
Author: e-petition

Link: Cost of badger cull may force U-turn
Link: This cruel badger cull is pointless - and I can prove it, says Queen guitarist Brian May


Other EVANA-articles about this topic:
GB: SOS Dachse (de)

UK: Badger cull will spread TB, scientists claim (en)