Controversial Welsh Assembly Government plans for a cull of around 1,500 badgers in Pembrokeshire, where badgers were to be trapped in cages and shot, have been halted after The Badger Trust won their legal challenge to stop it. They had questioned the cull’s effectiveness and argued it had not yet been scientifically proven that badgers are implicated in the transmission of TB within cattle.
The Welsh Assembly Government have said they are “disappointed” with the Court of Appeal’s judgement.
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