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Posted: 29 Dec 2005 at 6:03pm |
OK, so it is off-topic but whilst our herps are quietly tucked away some of us may want to give this some thought/discussion:
Countdown to extinction?
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Suzi
Senior Member Joined: 06 Apr 2005 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1025 |
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Gemma, I have been following the badger/TB problem for some time and guessed that killing would win eventually. Badgers are in my garden most nights and many dozen live within the town here in East Devon. How do they propose getting rid of these urban ones? We are in a very dense badger population area here in the south west and it will be difficult I should imagine to "empty" an area without others moving in to fill the void created. I think the government have already made their mind up to go ahead so this is just flannel. |
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Alan Hyde
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Gemma, thanks for this info I wasn't aware that this was going on. I did sign myself and forward to all the people that I know
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O-> O+>
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Mick
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As far as i'm concerned, after all these years, the government are yet STILL piddling in the wind with this one! I just wont buy it until we all see absolute, clear, conclusive proof that poor Badgers are the cause.
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arvensis
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Don't the Badgers get Bovine TB of the cattle in the first place then spread it as they move about?
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Wolfgang Wuster
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Now, now - use your common sense - surely it is obvious that the guilty party for spreading bovine TB can only be the badgers, which can move several miles in a night. Couldn't possibly have anything to do with farmers trucking animals from one end of the country to the other on a daily basis (in between complaining about fuel prices, natch), could it now? Perhaps we should blame badgers for foot-and-mouth as well, while we are at it...
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Wolfgang Wüster
School of Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor http://pages.bangor.ac.uk/~bss166/ |
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Morpheus
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Wouldnt removing badgers from the wild mess up the food chain or something i dont know much about them but something bad would probably come from this
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