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A Badger Trust statement [56] indicated the 2012/13 badger cull had these specific aims: Determine whether badger cull targets for each pilot area can be met within six weeks with at least 70% of the badger population removed in each cull area; Determine whether shooting "free-running" badgers at night is a humane way of killing badgers.
The European badger (Meles meles), also known as the Eurasian badger, is a badger species in the family Mustelidae native to Europe and West Asia and parts of Central Asia.It is classified as least concern on the IUCN Red List, as it has a wide range and a large, stable population size which is thought to be increasing in some regions.
Badger Trust campaigns against badger culling in the United Kingdom. [3] It does this through a variety of methods including reports, presentations and local activity. It has also filed legal challenges in the High Court against planned badger culls, challenging a planned cull in Wales in 2010. [4] Badger Trust won a halt to the Welsh cull. [5]
The proposals for targeted culls within the existing high risk and adjacent areas come as the policy of widespread intensive culling is phased out. Plans for targeted badger culling to continue in ...
Campaigners say the cull should be halted immediately but farmers say the move will jeopardise the ability to control tuberculosis in cattle. No new badger culling licences will be issued after ...
Badger culling has been used to contain bovine tuberculosis but will end in England within five years as part of a ... Bence Máté watches a European roller ambush a little owl in Kiskunság ...
European badger. Badgers are medium-sized short-legged omnivores in the superfamily Musteloidea.Badgers are a polyphyletic rather than a natural taxonomic grouping, being united by their squat bodies and adaptions for fossorial activity rather than by their ancestral relationships: Musteloidea contains several families, only two of which (the "weasel family" Mustelidae and the "skunk family ...
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