Day: January 5, 2014

By Dominic Dyer, Care for the Wild International In between taking calls from senior editors of national newspapers asking me if I could confirm reports that Environment Minister Owen Paterson was on a skiing holiday in France, leaving David Cameron to face the anger of flood victims, I spend some of my Christmas break getting …

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The cost of the badger cull pilots in Somerset and Gloucestershire has been put at £4,100 per badger shot, campaigners claim – and put the cost of a four-year trial at £19 million. Animal charity Care for the Wild almost doubled its previous estimate, made in October, of £2,200 per animal, and now puts the …

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