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This new announcement consult.defra.gov.uk/bovine-tb-2020… means two more years of new #badgercull licences. In 2019-20 new licences covered an area larger than Cornwall, Devon, and Dorset combined so a lot more badgers could die before culling ends
It also looks as though 2025 would be the last year of large-scale culling. The last new licences would be issued in 2022, so 4 years of culling would run 2022-5 (though culling could be stopped earlier)
The supplementary cull licences issued in 2020 would the last 5-year licences issued (culling 2020-4).
So many questions about this story, starting with: What measures does @NaturalEngland have in place to check that badgers submitted during culls come from the cull zones, from cull periods? cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-…
The risk of shooters "beefing up" the numbers by submitting road kills, or adding in badgers shot elsewhere, has been known since the first pilot culls, when badgers subject to PM included 1 that was never shot, and 1 that was shot when already dead assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
...and when @FredaBrox reported tracking a marksman's vehicle which repeatedly visited a baited sett miles from the cull zone. Maybe not legal but a clue to @NaturalEngland what might be going on.
