It's over.. cull stop
Daily Mirror UK|August 24, 2024
Labour to axe badger killings under new TB fight strategy
NADA FARHOUD
It's over.. cull stop

THE controversial cull of badgers to combat disease in cattle will be stopped at last, the government has vowed.

Over 210,000 have been killed in England in a decade-long cull to fight bovine tuberculosis.

But the effectiveness of the scheme - which has killed half of the UK population, according to the Badger Trust - is highly contested by scientists and animal welfare organisations.

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