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Badger Cull

Proceeding contribution from Mary Creagh (Labour) in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 5 June 2013. It occurred during Opposition day on Badger Cull.

I am going to explain perturbation, so I will get that over with if the hon. Gentleman does not mind.

Perturbation is where badgers are displaced by the shooting and leave their setts, spreading TB to neighbouring areas. Labour’s trial culls revealed that culling increases TB in badgers by a factor of 1.9 because of perturbation—that is 90%. Ministers affirm that the cull will have hard boundaries to avoid perturbation, but they ignore the fact that the RBCT also had hard boundaries where possible.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
563 c1522 
Session
2013-14
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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