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Home Made Snare Kills Badger

Published: 25 April 1995 Isle of Wight County Press

Home made snare kills badger on the Isle of WightIsle of Wight badger killed by a home-made snare.

This badger was found dead in a field at Atherfield, Isle of Wight, just north of the Military Road with a home made snare around it attached to a log.  The snare had cut into the badger causing terrible injuries. A search of the location did not reveal any more snares, although the badger could have dragged the log over a mile.

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Badgers are to be used as target practice. That, says the Badger Trust, is the effect of Caroline Spelman's Commons announcement that she plans to hold two pilot culls in the south west.

Nowhere in her Commons statement was there any mention of the culls contributing to a reduction in the incidence of bTB in the pilot areas nor was there any mention of carrying out post mortems to establish whether the badgers are infected. How can it be humane to kill an animal solely to see how long it has taken to die?

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