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BADGER CULL UPDATE - 31st March 2008

Welsh Assembly considering badger cull after high numbers of positive TB tests in Welsh cattle caused by the post foot and mouth re-stocking of Welsh farms!!  Go to The Badger Trust Web Site for more information

 

RSPCA joins in with the criticism of Sir David King. "shocked" at his recommendation...

Nature  ridicules the pro-culling advice from the government's chief scientific adviser, Prof. Sir David King.

Highlights from the ISG report to the Secretary of  State...

18 June 2007
Dear Secretary of State,
FINAL REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT SCIENTIFIC GROUP ON CATTLE TB

... First, while badgers are clearly a source of cattle TB, careful evaluation of our own and others’ data indicates that badger culling can make no meaningful contribution to cattle TB control in Britain. Indeed, some policies under consideration are likely to make matters worse rather than better. 

...Second, weaknesses in cattle testing regimes mean that cattle themselves contribute significantly to the persistence and spread of disease in all areas where TB occurs, and in some parts of Britain are likely to be the main source of infection. Scientific findings indicate that the rising incidence of disease can be reversed, and geographical spread contained, by the rigid application of cattle-based control measures alone.

F J BOURNE

More information from the ISG

The Badger Trust Web Site

Chief Scientist anti-badger report

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