Elin Jones, agriculture minister for the Welsh Assembly is presently considering whether to go ahead with a "pilot" cull of badgers in Wales. The Welsh Assembly have been given £27 million to combat bTB in cattle. The proposed cull would cover an area with so called hard boundaries. It could cover the whole of a county such as Pembrokeshire. There is a real possibility that Wales could go down this route.
Amongst the committee advising Elin Jones, there is an MP, Lorraine Barrett who agrees with Badger Trust Cymru, that a badger cull would be pointless, as shown in Ireland, and that Northern Ireland has reduced the incidence of bTB by other means such as biosecurity and cattle movement restrictions.
She does not agree with the slaughter of overwhelmingly healthy badgers. On her web page there is a poll. Do you agree with the culling of badgers in Wales? Anyone interested in voting can follow this link:
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