Following upThe 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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flatfrog Staring vacantly into space,
Sun 9 Jun 2013, 0:22,
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it's like badgers live in badger habitat, and loads live together and cause a problem because they are cunts
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mongychops,
Sun 9 Jun 2013, 0:45,
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'blinded by technical terminology'
FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector.,
Sun 9 Jun 2013, 1:19,
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So your saying that Defra and various scientific bodies have overestimated the badger population by 10 times, and only you've noticed?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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Sun 9 Jun 2013, 8:14,
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it could be just words on the internet, of course
Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus,
Sun 9 Jun 2013, 10:17,
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