{"id":126,"date":"2016-03-29T23:28:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T06:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/?p=126"},"modified":"2016-03-30T22:29:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T05:29:38","slug":"gassing-setts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/2016\/03\/29\/gassing-setts\/","title":{"rendered":"Gassing Setts"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/static\/sys-images\/Environment\/Pix\/pictures\/2014\/5\/15\/1400154939588\/Badger-sett-009.jpg?w=620&amp;q=55&amp;auto=format&amp;usm=12&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f16d7be510921cacf7a41ccc8a7454e7\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Opening to a badger sett<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Previously in the 1980s, hydrogen cyanide had been used in trial culls to gas badger setts, which are the animals&#8217; underground dens. However, use of hydrogen cyanide gas was eventually deemed as inhumane and to cause immense suffering in badgers,\u00a0so was discontinued. Thus a current, proposed\u00a0alternative to culling by free shooting is to use carbon monoxide to gas badger setts. This method would have a higher effective cull rate compared to free shooting as all the badgers present in the expansive sett would be euthanized through lethal gassing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pros?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More effective in badger cull rate than free-shooting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Cons?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Welfare of badgers using this method is untested<\/li>\n<li>Do not know if carbon monoxide gassing would cause more suffering compared to free shooting culls<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previously in the 1980s, hydrogen cyanide had been used in trial culls to gas badger setts, which are the animals&#8217; underground dens. However, use of hydrogen cyanide gas was eventually deemed as inhumane and to cause immense suffering in badgers,\u00a0so was discontinued. Thus a current, proposed\u00a0alternative to culling by free shooting is to use carbon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/2016\/03\/29\/gassing-setts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gassing Setts<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35036,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[486623],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}