Month: January 2014

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OPINION: £7.3m badger cull is most disastrous, expensive wildlife cull on record

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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Badger cull cost £4,100 per badger, claim campaigners

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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