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Article: Follow Welsh example for badger cull, demands CLA ; Landowners in the South West say environment ministers should follow the Welsh example in tackling bovine TB.
- Article from:
- Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
- Article date:
- April 11, 2008
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Landowners in the South West say environment ministers should
follow the Welsh example in tackling bovine TB.
The Country, Land and Business Association (CLA) says TB is
endemic in badgers and needs to be dealt with in the interests of
badger welfare as well as in the interests of disease control in
cattle and other animals.
The Welsh Assembly Government has agreed to remove all sources of
infection on farms, which includes cattle and badgers.
John Mortimer, the CLA's South West regional director, said: "The
cost of TB in human misery, domestic and wild animal welfare and in
financial terms is spiralling. The current control mechanisms
employed in England are clearly not working - yet the ...