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A CHALLENGE to the legality of badger culling in England was thrown out by the High Court today.
Ecologist Tom Langton argued that guidance issued last year by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), expanding the existing cull programme across England and allowing “supplementary culling,” was unlawful.
He also argued that culling was counterproductive, pointing to a June 2007 report which found that resorting to the practice in response to a bovine tuberculosis outbreak actually “worsened the spread” of the disease because badgers moved beyond the cull areas.
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the government’s proposals to further limit the right of citizens to trial by jury
