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(not mile - based on that document)
Frankly, the notion is ludicrous. That's ten times the estimate of the fox population in the UK. If they're coming up with numbers like that, there *has* to be something wrong with their data collection method. I'm no expert on the ecology of badgers, but that figure just sounds fishy as fuck to me.
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Frankly, the notion is ludicrous. That's ten times the estimate of the fox population in the UK. If they're coming up with numbers like that, there *has* to be something wrong with their data collection method. I'm no expert on the ecology of badgers, but that figure just sounds fishy as fuck to me.

The Badger Trust's website has an estimate from 2005 of 288,000 badgers in the UK, which would be around 1 per sq km, roughly the same as foxes. That sounds a *lot* more likely to me. So either their estimation method is way off or they chose some areas to sample with particularly high population density. Either way, that's a huge discrepancy and if they're planning to slaughter 70% of badgers, it's hard to see how they can do that with any degree of accuracy based on those numbers.
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Or could it be you don't undertsand what your talking about, and using a combination of ignorance and confirmation biased, are spouting any old shit to support your beliefs?
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Given its high costs and low benefits we therefore conclude that badger culling is unlikely to contribute usefully to the control of cattle TB in Britain, and recommend that TB control efforts focus on measures other than badger culling
In this case it's the farmers that are consistently being cunts. Badgers are just getting on with being badgers.
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In this case it's the farmers that are consistently being cunts. Badgers are just getting on with being badgers.

then we can cull you as well
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