Hours after receiving this letter from Natural England, comes a letter from Defra saying that the supplementary culling licences have been authorised in Gloucestershire and Somerset.
So it appears that the challenge to the supplementary culling licences was not premature after all?
What is going on at Natural England?
Natural England’s new authorisations allow the killing of up to 540 badgers in Gloucestershire Pilot Area 1 and 578 in Somerset Pilot Area 2.