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United Kingdom: Farmers' leaders look at new areas for badger cull
2013-01-09 15:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Farmers' leaders are considering the possibility of finding fresh areas for the controversial badger cull in England, which is due to take place later this year. The cull had been due to take place in two zones in Gloucestershire and Somerset this winter but the government announced in October that it would be postponed. The farmers' union, the NFU, said that alternative areas were being looked at in case the will to carry out the cull, designed to tackle bovine tuberculosis in cattle, was...
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Thousands of Antarctic reindeer face cull
2013-01-09 14:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: About 3,000 reindeer on an island near Antarctica are to be slaughtered to stop damage to the environment by the descendants of a tiny herd introduced a century ago for food by Norwegian whale hunters. A 16-strong team, mostly Sami reindeer herders, has arrived in South Georgia, a British overseas territory, and is preparing to round up and cull all the reindeer on an island that is home to penguins and seals and has no native grazing animals. "The reindeer have become very destructive," Reidar...
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