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Trust disappointed at Assembly Governments plan to shoot badgersTrust disappointed at Assembly Governments plan to shoot badgers THE Badger Trust said it was "disappointed" with the Assembly Government's plans to go ahead and shoot badgers as part of a campaign to eliminate bovine TB in Wales. The trust... |
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BBC News | November 02, 2009
Judicial review over badger cull
...the reasoning behind the proposed cull A charity is seeking a judicial review of a decision to order a cull of badgers in parts of west Wales in an attempt to eradicate bovine TB. The Badger Trust has written to Wales' Rural...
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Farmers 'key' to badger TB trial
...work close to infected setts, and to access the same land annually to vaccinate new cubs. Plans to cull badgers in Wales have met with protests "Quite a significant amount of farmers will think probably it won't hurt to let Defra have a...
In this article: Cattle, Veterinary Medicines Directorate, Hilary Benn, England, Wales, and UK
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Guardian Unlimited | July 04, 2008
English badgers earn a reprieve, as government rejects mass cull Environment guardian.co.uk
...culls unless administrations in London and Cardiff backed programmes with legal force. The precise relationship between TB in badgers and TB in cattle remains hotly disputed but the disease in cattle is moving steadily north in England with...
In this article: Cattle, The National Trust, UK, and England
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Badger cull proposals 'rejected'
...which claims cattle TB has already cost the industry millions. In April a "targeted cull" of badgers was announced in Wales as part of a plan to eradicate TB in cattle. The Welsh Assembly Government's plan includes a one-off test of all...
In this article: Cattle, Hilary Benn, and England
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Wales Online | March 24, 2009
Badger cull planned to halt bovine tuberculosis
...this brutal extermination elsewhere. " Badger Trust chairman David Williams said it was "abhorrent" to slaughter badgers in Wales when trials of a vaccine for badgers will start in England next year. "This is cheap, nasty politics of the...
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Telegraph.co.uk - UK news | March 24, 2009
Badger cull in Wales to go ahead
...proposed cull as an "abhorrent decision". A spokesman said: "By combining badger culling with other TB control measures, Elin Jones will have no idea which particular measure reduces the disease. "But any resulting fall in bovine TB will...
In this article: Wales, Cattle, Britain, England, EU, and Dai Davies
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Welsh badger cull is brutal and futile
...mess of trampled snow and blood. More roadkill, in other words. For the reasons I've put forward, the Pembrokeshire badger cull cannot possibly help to eliminate TB from Wales. But that is not what it's about. It appears to be a symbolic...
In this article: Cattle, Wales, England, Deforestation, and JavaScript
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Badger is the common name for any animal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: the same mammal family as the ferrets, the weasels, the otters, and several other types of carnivore. There are eight species of badger, in three subfamilies: Melinae (badgers of Europe and Asia – see links in species list below), Mellivorinae (the Ratel or honey badger), and Taxideinae (the American badger). The Asiatic stink badgers of the genus Mydaus were formerly included in the Melinae, but recent genetic evidence indicates that these are actually Old World relatives of the skunks (family Mephitidae).
Typical badgers (Meles, Arctonyx, Taxidea and Mellivora species) are short-legged and heavy-set. The lower jaw is articulated to the upper by means of a transverse condyle firmly locked into a long cavity of the cranium, so that dislocation of the jaw is all but impossible. This enables the badger to maintain its hold with the utmost tenacity, but limits its jaw movement to hinging opening and shutting or sliding from side to side.
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