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His conclusion was that the sum of evidence "strongly supports the view that badgers are a cause of herd breakdowns".
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Every confirmed outbreak is investigated and all other sources of infection are eliminated before the possibility of cross-infection from badgers is assessed.
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The arguments over the past two months have been not about dogs but about the protection of the badger's sett.
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Of course, they can cause havoc, especially to domestic property, but nevertheless the current systems for managing badgers work well.
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In many cases, if they cannot find badgers to torment, they become involved, through disreputable organisations, in the pitting of terrier against terrier.
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I recognise the emotion involved in the protection of badgers, which is covered by clause 1.
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Disruption of social groups is likely to lead to changes in the contact rates of badgers from different social groups.
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Currently, however, no data are available to link low body weight to disease resistance in badgers.
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Furthermore, cattle feed may provide alternative nutrition for badgers when natural foods are unavailable.
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However, they may not be available to badgers under some conditions such as during periods of dry weather.
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When earthworms are not available badgers are forced to select other food sources and will forage greater distances to obtain these.
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The amount of perturbation is a factor of the degree of culling, and the number of badgers surviving it.
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Movements of badgers between social groups is a natural phenomenon.
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There will be some movement of badgers even within areas of high density where social groups are virtually contiguous.
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The predominantly pastoral west is thought to provide more preferred habitat for badgers than the arable east of the country.
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Cereal grains and many plant fibres pass through the badger's digestive system relatively unchanged, and may therefore, often represent low-value food sources.
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Because these and other food types are taken according to their availability, the diet of badgers varies both geographically and seasonally1.
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I appreciate that badgers only occasionally cause damage to agricultural crops and are on balance beneficial to agriculture.
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However, it went on to say that it is not possible to quantify what contribution badgers make to cattle infection.
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They also dig out badgers when they can get away with it.
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Unless we do so, some parts of the country will be overrun with badgers and foxes.
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One of my pet subjects is tuberculosis in badgers.
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I am pleased to be able to announce the membership of the independent review team on tuberculosis and badgers.
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First, setts would be protected even when vacant or disused, or occupied by foxes rather than badgers.
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The holes have been abandoned because the badgers have moved elsewhere.
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Conversely, badgers often occupy earths, drains and burrows used by foxes and by rabbits.
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The numbers today are low and badgers have not managed to build up to their former levels.
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I reiterate that badgers are not rare animals.
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If they block it, they will in effect be saying that their sport is more important than extending full protection to badgers.
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Properly conducted stopping with soft earth, as recommended in the code, causes no harm to badgers.
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There has been much debate on the subject of earth stopping and the evidence that it might cause harm to badgers.
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He had better not try again to sabotage a measure to protect badgers.
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We also intend to appoint an external assessor to evaluate the method of despatch used for badgers.
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In the southern lakeland, gamekeepers use traps on badgers.
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I have no proposals in mind at present for any change in the law relating to badgers.
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They both succeeded in achieving a major reform for the protection of badgers.
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There should not be any worry about the welfare of badgers, because it may well be possible to move them from the sites.
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The amendments would allow farming activities that disturbed badgers or slightly damaged setts, provided there was no likelihood of harm to badgers.
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I trust that, when all those stages have been completed, we shall be able to say that we have afforded badgers more protection.
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I am thinking of grey seals, fish-eating birds and perhaps badgers.
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The focus of the debate is rightly on cattle, but badgers can come into contact with human beings.
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At present there is no reliable live test to check for the disease in badgers.
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There are certain exceptions to this offence, two of which are specifically relevant to the issue of relocating badgers.
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The area gassed was determined by the location of infected farms, infected badgers, sett groupings and natural boundaries.
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My noble friend says quite rightly that he is concerned about the way in which badgers are destroyed.
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Different considerations might apply to badgers bred in captivity.
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If there is one thing that we do not want, it is to have badgers in cages in back gardens.
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Then badgers would be a healthier species which would survive longer in the long run.
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Obviously, to achieve that it will be necessary to catch specimen badgers and have the carcases analysed.
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They are vigilant in protecting them from this prevalent practice of unlawful digging for badgers which is going on in many parts of the country.
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In those three years the values of these skins have jumped from nothing to £40 for foxes, £60 for badgers.
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They are grazed there by right of cot commoners or badgers.
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Again and again, doctors are badgered by patients and by the relatives of patients.
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The six were acquitted by magistrates who felt it could not be proved that the men were hunting badgers rather than foxes.
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The badgers go down one and the foxes go down the other.
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Legitimate exemptions and other attempts to safeguard material outside the badger's life are all well and good.
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The badger's ability to move earth would do credit to many of the great construction companies of our country.
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Notwithstanding the earthworks and concrete, within a matter of weeks, before the construction of the motorway was complete, the badgers had reopened the route.
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We are concerned about not only diggers and baiters but developers, who flatten the badgers' homes and bury them alive.
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The advertisement then states where the book is available and that it contains information on how to hunt badgers with dogs.
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Fines alone are not enough; other measures are needed to improve the law against cruelty to animals, particularly as it relates to badgers.
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He accused me of pestering and badgering him for the last three years.
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When the advertisement appeared, hunting badgers with dogs—in many cases the same dogs as are used in dog fighting—was banned.
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They have taken steps in certain parts to eliminate the badgers that normally live there.
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I emphasise that the new clause would not permit badgers to be gassed by any occupier at any place for any reason.
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We should like not only the smallest number of badgers but the smallest number of other creatures to die.
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There are several ways in which to reduce the number of badgers.
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Although research in this country and overseas is continuing, progress towards development of an effective vaccine for badgers is unlikely to be rapid.
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The courts are very anxious that the education authorities should provide facilities and are always badgering them to do so.
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We have extended that to cover otters and dormice as endangered species and some cover has been given in legislation to badgers.
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Field trials are continuing to assess the effectiveness of the live test to diagnose tuberculosis in living badgers.
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One came across foxes and badgers and, occasionally, one would see the mask of an otter.
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I also have 20 acres of grazing which have been really ruined by the badgers.
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During the field trial in 2002 there was no effect on other wild mammals (other than badgers), domestic mammals or wild birds.
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In badgers infection by inoculation through bite wounds are also a relatively frequent route of infection.
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The sett may be formidable and the excavation may appear to be substantial, but there may be very few badgers in the sett.
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I think the new clause will make it more likely that in genuine cases where the accused were digging for badgers a conviction will follow.
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There is not and never has been a programme to destroy badgers.
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We are constantly badgering the chairmen of the nationalised industries to change their policies.
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As a result, areas of vegetation are being lost, and various species, including nesting birds and badgers, have been affected.
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A few years ago a crowd of badgers must have got together, walked down this particular road and set up home in a back garden.
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The brothers planted 30 acres for winter feeding and estimate that one third of that has been a complete loss—destroyed by badgers.
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They respond only after they have been badgered time and again.
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The consensus of opinion among expert naturalists appears to be that badgers are common and not in need of special protection.
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In certain circumstances, badgers can cause serious damage, and any protective legislation must ensure that in such circumstances badgers can be legally moved or destroyed.
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There was preliminary evidence to suggest that infantile coccidiosis in badgers may be associated with impaired growth and increased mortality.
Human activity is heralded by noise: aural disruption accompanies the badger's capture.
Then he persistently badgered the ecclesiastical authorities to create a new benefice, with an equal lack of success.
Many species will not travel far from hedges (except for species such as deer and badgers that travel freely across open fields).
The other main route of infection is through badgers.
Estimation of the badgers' population in the treated area shows a gradual increase in number.
Readers can feel condescended to or badgered.
In common with blood parasitaemias, coccidia can also be studied using non-destructive sampling techniques, allowing samples to be collected from all the badgers in the population on repeated occasions.
All induced samples were collected within a 3-h badger processing period to limit circadian variations in oocyst output.
Once we return to the themes of play and departure discussed at the start of the stanza, it is clear that the badger has changed.
The badger lives in harmonious accord with nature, a notion the last stanza expounds further.
Their pleasure in destruction will later extend to burning the forest, which the badger enjoys a symbiotic relationship with.
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