Sentences with phrase «policy of culling»
Yet he said recently that it takes «political courage» to pursue the policy of culling of badgers in the face of widespread opposition.
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Firstly the BBC delayed the publication of the ruling until after a critical debate on the future of the badger cull policy in parliament on March 13th.
The badger cull is one of the most controversial farming and wildlife policies in the last 40 years.
David Cameron has defended the upcoming badger cull, saying it takes «political courage» to pursue the policy in the face of widespread opposition.
However, under considerable pressure from farming and landowning interests, the government is clinging to the wreckage of the policy and plans to continue badger culling in Somerset and Gloucestershire this summer and possibly extend the cull into Dorset as well.
It's now widely anticipated that the independent expert panel reviewing the badger cull pilots will deliver a report which is very critical of the policy on cost and effectiveness grounds.
Opponents of the badger cull were jubilant yesterday after MPs were given the go - ahead to officially debate the policy.
Mike Elmendorf, president and CEO of Associated General Contractors, said the Cuomo policy has meant that general contractors are forced to exhaustively cull the state's list of certified minority subcontractors and try hiring them to show a good - faith effort to hit the 30 percent mark — even if it's already known to be impossible.
«Many of these people are opinion formers, and the government of Botswana should be aware of the massive drop in popularity which the country would suffer were it to adopt the culling policy.»
Lacking an effective animal vaccination program, in 2006 China began enforcing a one - dog per family policy and in a June crackdown one city culled 37,000 dogs in hopes of quelling an outbreak.
But new studies show that, if anything, the measures haven't been strict enough: A more rigorous culling policy in the first phase of the epidemic could have saved millions of animals, the researchers say.
A preliminary analysis of the first 2 years of culling, reported last month in Ecology and Evolution, cautioned that the data were limited and it would be «unwise» to generalize about how effective the policy has been so far.
As a result, there is a noticeable tendency on the part of many in the education policy world to cull the scientific literature for studies that come to a desired result.
In nations without well - established animal care and control policies, such as Ukraine, Greece, Egypt and Romania, stray animals are eliminated by any means possible and barbaric methods including beating, poisoning and hanging are oftentimes used, and are even encouraged, as effective ways to cull stray populations of cats and dogs.
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According statistics for HO - 3 homeowner policies culled together by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), New Jersey homeowners paid an average of $ 776 per premium in 2007.