An independent panel of experts called the UK government’s unconscionable badger cull “cruel” and “ineffective.” So guess what? Next time the government isn’t going to have a panel of experts. And will continue the slaughter of these amazing wild animals without them, next year.
This video from Britain is called BBC wildlife Documentary – The BADGERS Secrets of the Sett – full length – David Attenborough.
From Wildlife Extra:
Independent badger cull monitors will not be asked to oversee again
The second year of the badger cull in Somerset and Gloucestershire will not be monitored by The Independent Experts Panel, the Government has revealed.
The news was criticised by Labour MP Maria Eagle who accused the Government of ignoring advice they didn’t like or didn’t want to hear.
“Now ministers have confirmed that they will not allow further expert scrutiny of their disastrous policy when the cull resumes later this year. What do the Tories do if they don’t like the independent scientific advice they get? Stop asking for advice,” she says.
Maria Eagle MP, Labour’s Shadow Environment Secretary, asked the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs at Parliamentary Questions:…
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