Sentences with phrase «badger population»

The trial culls showed the difficulty of achieving the necessary 70 % reduction in badger population needed to reduce the risk of spreading disease to cattle.

A separate cull in Somerset saw a 65 % reduction in the badger population, below the 70 % reduction target.

In terms of effectiveness, we have now learned from Freedom of Information requests that in the initial six weeks of the pilot culls, only 24 % of the estimated badger population in Gloucestershire and Somerset were killed by free shooting.

The issues which caused the delay have included queries over the amount of power it will require (supposedly more than the city of Dublin) and the potential impact on local bats and badger populations, protected species which live in the nearby forest.

Not exact matches

If we continue to cull badgers when we can no longer be certain of the population numbers due to widespread illegal killing, we are running a serious risk of eradication of the species from large areas of the UK.

It is understood that culling badgers spreads the disease further as it forces them to runaway — this paper shows that an increase in the population of badgers seems to have a similar result as culling, increasing badger - induced infection distances.

Distemper affects other animals as well; raccoons, coyotes, wolves, foxes, ferrets, skunks, weasels, mink, badgers, hyenas, and jackals can also catch the disease and a population of lions in Africa has been decimated by it.

By «regulating» smaller predators like foxes, raccoons, skunks, badgers, and opossums through competition and direct killing, they have a significant positive impact on rodent control and water fowl / songbird populations.

, Wisconsin, which is also known as the Badger State, had a population of 5,726,398 in 2012.

Parts of the country, particularly the Rust Belt and the Great Plains, will lose population during that period, wrote Badger, citing data from the Urban Institute.