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Tag Archives: fox
The badger cull – what we know and what we don’t know
Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is an infectious disease of cattle (Bos primigenius) caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium bovis. You could follow my ‘tuberculosis’ tag. Other animals can get bTB too. In Britain, some people think the native badger (Meles meles) is … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, ecology, knowledge transfer
Tagged alien species, bacterium, badger, biosecurity, brushtail possum, cattle, data, deer, disease, farmer, foot and mouth disease, fox, history, knowledge, livestock, mammal, marsupial, mouse, mustelid, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, native species, poison, polecat, politics, research, reservoir, rodent, ruminant, shooting, shrew, squirrel, stoat, tuberculosis, vertebrate, vole, wildlife
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Badger cull is to start tomorrow night
Here in Britain some cattle (Bos primigenius) get bovine tuberculosis (bTB) and we want rid. Wild badgers (Meles meles) can get bTB too. Some people think badgers spread the infection (Mycobacterium bovis) to cattle. Others think that we shouldn’t obsess … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, ecology
Tagged badger, bovine tuberculosis, cattle, disease, dog, fox, history, hunting, law, livestock, mammal, Mycobacterium bovis, notifiable disease, politics, ruminant, shooting, tuberculosis, vertebrate, welfare, wildlife
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Badger culling
My fellow blogger MottledThrush shows us what’s being said in Brussels about badgers. Here’s a list of notifiable diseases affecting livestock in Britain. Our Secretary of State, Owen Paterson, is taking a political risk here isn’t he? He might win … Continue reading
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Tagged bacterium, badger, bovine tuberculosis, canid, cattle, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, disease, dog, fox, history, hunting, livestock, mammal, mustelid, Mycobacterium bovis, notifiable disease, Paterson_Owen, pest, politics, predator, ruminant, shooting, tuberculosis, vaccine, vermin, vertebrate, wildlife, zoonosis
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