.. our Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is 'minded' to allow two pilot badger culls to go ahead, each lasting 6 weeks, in the autumn of 2012. The Defra statement can be viewed here (pdf) - note section 5 for the cull protocol which participating farmers will have to abide by.
More on the official press release, from Farmers Weekly, Farmers Guardian and the Western Morning News.
We'll revisit this later in the week, as the dust settles around various reactions.
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