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Farming Today: Badger cull, beavers and grass

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30/04/2014

Badger cull, beavers and grass

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, Badger cull, beavers and grass

An independent expert panel will not scrutinise the second year of badger culling pilots.

Defra has confirmed that the second year of badger culling pilots will not be scrutinised by the independent expert panel which criticised 2013's cull in Somerset and Gloucs.

DEFRA has confirmed that the 2nd year of the badger culling pilots in England won't be scrutinised by an Independent Expert Panel. The Panel's report on last year's cull in Somerset and Gloucs found that some humaneness and effectiveness targets hadn't been met.

A YouGov survey has found 60% of Scots would be happy with the reintroduction of Beavers to the Scottish countryside.

And, the race against time to restore pastures devastated by the Somerset Levels flooding.

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