Ecologist loses High Court challenge against extended badger culls
(World News UK)

An ecologist who claims extended badger culls risk making the bovine TB epidemic worse has lost a High Court challenge against them. Badger culls were introduced in 2011 in a bid to reduce the spread of the disease, which results in the destruction of infected cattle herds. Government guidance issued last year expanded the existing cull programme to new areas in England and allowed `supplementary culling`. Tom Langton, an ecology consultant and...