If you google “Is the Badger Cull Working?”, you get the following Artificial Intelligence (AI) overview:
“The badger cull, designed to reduce bovine TB in cattle, has faced significant debate and controversy, with evidence suggesting it has not been demonstrably effective in reducing disease rates.”
AI cannot always be relied on for accuracy or its ability to summarize complex science. But you can’t argue with this one sentence.
Natural England should ‘Stop the Culls’. Instead, this is what they will almost certainly do; they will announce that around 15,000 badgers were shot in 2024, and this will be deemed a ‘success’ due to their view of ‘anticipated’ benefit’ – as opposed to ‘measured benefit’. Then they will sign off licences to kill off another 7,000 across 16 counties of England.
They have no ability to say whether what they have done has had any effect on bTB in cattle and they resist scrutiny of uncertainties around this. They have undertaken no serious efforts to monitor ecological impacts of removing badgers. It has to be asked whether such actions are lawful? But the courts say the Government is in charge and can use its chosen ‘experts’ for advice. What chance do badgers have against such blinkered, cruel thinking and an uncaring administration?
How the badger culls will drag on in 2025………….
Note: Area 44 Avon was not approved to continue in 2024.
If you support challenging the flawed science behind the badger cull and a parliamentary debate on the issue, please sign the Protect The Wild petition linked below calling to “End the Badger cull and adopt other approaches to bovine TB control”:
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