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Conservative Revolution

Britain and the world’s oldest conservative think tank

Conservative Revolution

Britain and the world’s oldest conservative think tank

UK Government Suspends Badger Cull

Oct 24, 2012 | Archive, News Articles

 

The Secretary of State for the Environment Owen Paterson has announced the Government’s decision to suspend the proposed programme of badger culling to combat bovine TB.

In March the Bow Group released a major policy paper authored by Dr Brian May, Lord Krebs and Graham Godwin-Pearson urging the Government to reconsider plans to resume badger culling in England in autumn 2012, saying the culls, an attempt to control the spread of bovine Tuberculosis (bTB), are likely to be more costly and less practical to conduct than DEFRA believes. Counter-intuitively, culling has also been proven to make bTB worse and Defra’s focus should be on vaccination instead.

Click here for the full Bow Group report or click here for the full story on the suspension at BBC news.