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What’s infecting England’s cows with TB? Is it badgers, or farmers and climate change?

Posted on January 10, 2014 by argylesock

Originally posted on vetsbeyondreason:
Found at http://www.eenews.net/stories/1059991389. Erica Rex, E&E Europe correspondent ClimateWire: Friday, December 6, 2013 “There’s no security, or peace and tranquility, except underground.” — Badger, from “The Wind in the Willows” by Kenneth Grahame NEWENT, Gloucestershire, England…

Posted in agriculture, ecology | Tagged bacterium, badger, bovine tuberculosis, cattle, disease, disease reservoir, disease transmission, farmer, livestock, mammal, Mycobacterium bovis, Paterson_Owen, politics, shooting, transport, vertebrate, wildlife | Leave a comment

Badger cull to end early in Gloucestershire

Posted on November 29, 2013 by argylesock

People with guns have been out shooting badgers (Meles meles) in Gloucestershire. This was one of the ‘pilot culls’ supposed to get rid of some of the badgers which, say some, are a reservoir of the bacterium Mycobacterium bovis which … Continue reading →

Posted in agriculture, ecology | Tagged bacterium, badger, bovine tuberculosis, cattle, data, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, disease, disease reservoir, livestock, mammal, Mycobacterium bovis, Paterson_Owen, politics, shooting, vertebrate, wildlife | 4 Comments

Is the existing bovine TB eradication policy really working?

Posted on November 2, 2013 by argylesock

One of my favourite sources of information about bovine tuberculosis (bTB, caused by Mycobacterium bovis) is bovinetb.co.uk. Its unnamed author is ‘looking for the reform of a costly and misguided system.’ When I talk to farmers, I often hear support … Continue reading →

Posted in agriculture, ecology, human health, knowledge transfer, money and trade | Tagged alpaca, cattle, disease, disease reservoir, disease testing, disease transmission, endemic disease, export, farmer, finance, food, food processing, food safety, history, human, knowledge, law, livestock, mammal, meat, milk, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, politics, ruminant, shooting, slaughter, trade, tuberculosis, vaccine, vertebrate, veterinary, welfare, wildlife, zoonosis | 19 Comments

Rookes, Crowes and Choughes

Posted on October 31, 2013 by argylesock

Originally posted on The Naturephile:
‘If men had wings and black feathers, few of them would ever be clever enough to be crows’ Henry Ward Beecher Clergyman, wit and abolitionist I’m incarcerated at home at the moment, having been laid…

Posted in agriculture, ecology | Tagged bird, bird of prey, carrion crow, chough, conservation, corvid, food security, history, hunting, land use, law, pest, predator, raptor, red kite, rook, shooting, vermin, vertebrate, wildlife | 4 Comments

Has the red kite become a pest?

Posted on October 30, 2013 by argylesock

Here in Britain the red kite (Milvus milvus) was hunted almost to extinction. In the 16th century it was classed as vermin, supposedly a threat to agriculture. A few centuries later, along came gamekeepers whose job was (and still is) … Continue reading →

Posted in ecology | Tagged bird, bird of prey, child, conservation, earthworm, game, history, livestock, native species, pest, pet, poultry, predator, raptor, red kite, reintroduced species, rodent, shooting, vermin, vertebrate, wildlife | 13 Comments

Licence for more badger culling

Posted on October 14, 2013 by argylesock

Natural England has today confirmed that criteria have been met to allow control of badgers to continue under licence in west Somerset for the purpose of preventing the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB).

Posted in ecology | Tagged bacterium, badger, bovine tuberculosis, cattle, disease, disease reservoir, law, livestock, mammal, mustelid, Mycobacterium bovis, ruminant, shooting, tuberculosis, vertebrate, wildlife | Leave a comment

The badger cull – what we know and what we don’t know

Posted on September 30, 2013 by argylesock

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 →

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Tag Archives: shooting

What’s infecting England’s cows with TB? Is it badgers, or farmers and climate change?

Badger cull to end early in Gloucestershire

Is the existing bovine TB eradication policy really working?

Rookes, Crowes and Choughes

Has the red kite become a pest?

Licence for more badger culling

The badger cull – what we know and what we don’t know

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