UK badger cull to go ahead after court challenge fails

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The British government will go ahead with a pilot scheme to cull thousands of badgers after a legal challenge to the plan failed. The Court of Appeal rejected the Badger Trust's efforts to block the cull - which is going ahead as part of efforts to control bovine tuberculosis (bTB). The Trust argues that previous culls have failed to stop the disease. Bovine TB led to the slaughter of 26,000 cattle in the UK in 2011.

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