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United Kingdom: Counting the cost: fears badger cull could worsen bovine TB crisis
2013-05-27 16:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: It's very hard to count an animal that lives underground and only comes out at night," says Prof Rosie Woodroffe, standing in the fresh earth strewn outside a foot-wide hole in a Cornish cattle field. "Badgers love digging," she observes, among the brambles and elders that thrive on the disturbed ground. Below stone tors and with the salty smell of the sea in the air, Woodroffe is doing what she has done for much of the past 15 years: trapping badgers for science. "The badgers are fat this year,"...
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