Putting the 'con' into consultation and the 'fiction' into science: England's badger cull

The Ecologist
Feb 27, 2017, 7:23 am129 pts
We already know the outcome of Defra's latest 'public consultation' on killing badgers long before the results have been analysed, writes Lesley Docksey - environment secretary Andrea Leadsom has promised farmers to extend the cull 'even further' although there is no proven benefit to culling badgers. Welcome…

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