Sentences with phrase «culling programme»

In addition, Cayman is also actively pursuing its lionfish culling programme by encouraging divers and dive operators to remove as many lionfish from Cayman waters as possible.

The culling programme put in place by countries, such as Kenya and Zimbabwe, is enabling Africans to evolve a happy equilibrium between themselves and the wild life around them.

New Zealand is now practically free of TB, after an intense possum - culling programme initiated in the mid-1990s.

The Irish government began a culling programme there in 2002 following a trial which found that herd outbreaks of TB were between two and 25 times less likely in culled than unculled areas (Preventive Veterinary Medicine, doi.org/b33wc7).

In desperation, the local administration introduced a «cat culling programme» and had removed some 400 feral cats by last year.

They confirmed that following the collapse of the pilot cull last year, many farmers lost confidence in the government's ability to deliver a legal culling programme against strong public opposition and decided to take the law into their own hands and illegally gas badgers on their farms.

The cost finding is just the latest damaging blow to the badger cull programme.

Alternative methods currently include dorsal fin tags of tiger sharks living off Hawaii, as well as the highly controversial culling programmes.

Here, all chips and pieces of rhino and elephant ivory recovered from poachers, poached animals, culling programmes, cases of natural death and, of late, elephants routinely slaughtered to feed the public at government functions are received, registered and issued with serial numbers.

Not exact matches

The vast majority of badgers killed in both pilot culls were by government employed trap teams, with higher costs than the Welsh government vaccination programme.

This brings us to the key issue of the overall costs of the pilot culls and a national rollout programme for badger culling.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have welcomed the Welsh Government's U-turn on its plan to introduce table valuations for cattle culled under the bTB eradication programme and to embrace instead the Welsh Liberal Democrat position of maintaining the present system.

But Tina Sacco, a farmer in Pembrokeshire, did not support the cull and believes a vaccination programme would be a better option.

With the introduction of sterilisation and continued efforts by members of the public to keep the programme going, the population and culling rates have been effectively halved.

According to the society, which is the veterinary division of the charity International Cat Care, culling to control cat populations is also rarely effective or acceptable, whereas trap — neuter — return programmes and rehoming (in appropriate cases) can offer effective and humane solutions, but need to be properly managed and targeted.

I was there to gain these qualifications and contribute to the volunteer programme by collecting data and taking part in lionfish culls but I came away with so much more than that.