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Badger jabs begin in Pembs

9:33am Thursday 14th June 2012

Environment Minister, John Griffiths has confirmed that Wales’ ground-breaking badger vaccination programme is now firmly underway in north Pembrokeshire.

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BADGER CULL REACTION: 'Farmers betrayed'

3:41pm Tuesday 20th March 2012

A DECISION to axe a pilot badger cull has been branded 'a cowardly betrayal of north Pembrokeshire farmers and the Welsh farming industry as a whole'.

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CULL DROPPED: 'We are on the side of farmers'

6:29pm Tuesday 20th March 2012

FOLLOWING the announcement that plans for a badger cull have been dropped, Deputy Minister for Agriculture, Alun Davies, has issued a message to farmers saying the Welsh Government was on their side.

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Bovine TB wipes out north Pembrokeshire herd

9:00am Saturday 4th February 2012

A north Pembrokeshire farmer plans to invite Wales’ First Minister to witness first-hand the devastation Bovine TB has brought to her farm.

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Badger cull TB review imminent

2:00pm Saturday 26th November 2011

THE review examining the science behind a potential cull of badgers to combat Bovine TB will report shortly, it has been confirmed.

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Badger cull could cut TB by up to 30%

11:40am Wednesday 6th October 2010

As a new consultation on plans to hold a badger cull in north Pembrokeshire begins, the Rural Affairs Minister is being urged to consider fresh data that reveals the reduction of bovine TB within the proposed cull zone could be more than three times higher than scientists had predicted.

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