The only effective potential Bovine Tuberculosis (TB) control strategies are badger culling, cattle testing, controlling cattle movement, and ceasing the practice of housing farm cattle together ...

A new study has found that culling drives badgers to roam 61% further afield -- helping to explain why the practice, intended to reduce bovine TB transmission, can sometimes exacerbate the problem ...

Despite petitions, threats from animal rights activists, and Parliamentary debate, a controversial badger cull is under way in England, the BBC reports. A badger, for those not acquainted with the ...

Badger culling is unlikely to be a cost-effective way of helping control cattle TB in Britain, according to research published today in PLoS ONE. The authors of the study, from Imperial College London ...

Figure 2: Simplified map of proactive and survey-only areas of triplet A. Our finding that widespread culling of badgers has simultaneous positive and negative effects on the incidence of TB in cattle ...

The study indicates the practice drives the surviving creatures to cover 61% more land each month than before the cull began. Researchers from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and Imperial ...

A council has reaffirmed its opposition to badger culling as a means of eradicating bovine tuberculosis (TB). Oxfordshire County Council last year voted to end badger culling on council-owned land.

Government officials have given the go-ahead for a fresh round of badger culling, starting immediately – against advice from their own scientific chief. Natural England is believed to have authorised ...

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Government officials have given the go-ahead for a fresh round of badger culling, starting immediately — against advice from their own scientific chief. Natural England is believed to have authorised ...