Resumen de Bovine TB: One numerical target hit, and one missed, in the 2014 badger culls

• PILOT badger culling operations in Somerset last year managed to remove more than the minimum number of animals specified by the licence conditions for the cull. However, culling operations in Gloucestershire failed to meet their target.

  Results published by Defra on December 18 show that contractors in west Somerset culled 341 badgers against a minimum number of 316 and a maximum number of 785. In west Gloucestershire, a total of 274 badgers were culled against a minimum number of 615 and a maximum of 1091....