{"id":156,"date":"2016-03-30T10:09:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T17:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/?p=156"},"modified":"2016-03-30T10:24:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T17:24:29","slug":"randomised-badger-culling-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/2016\/03\/30\/randomised-badger-culling-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"Randomised Badger Culling Trials (1998-2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trial badger cull conducted by Independent Scientific Group on Cattle TB (ISG)<\/li>\n<li>Assessed effectiveness of different types of culling for bTB control using the following experimental conditions:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure style=\"width: 579px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tbfreeengland.co.uk\/assets\/5219\" alt=\"\" width=\"579\" height=\"273\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Different experimental conditions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Major Findings?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Perturbation effect\u00a0<\/strong>with proactive\u00a0culling\n<ul>\n<li>Areas outside cull resulted in more bTB infections due to increased movements of badgers to escape cull, resulting in spread of disease<\/li>\n<li>Decreased bTB inside culled area<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Reactive culling not effective, increasing bTB by 29% (McDonald, 2014)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/influentialpoints.com\/Images\/effect-of-badger-culls-on-cattle-TB.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"428\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Effect of proactive culling during and after trial shows no overall benefit to badger culling for bTB control in cattle (Jenkins et al., 2010)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Recommendations?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Culling\u00a0=\u00a0short term benefits in culled area, but ineffective in long term<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Need to cull over large areas of land with natural boundaries to prevent perturbation effect<\/li>\n<li>More efforts should be put into research instead<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Impact on Government in 2008?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Creation of new advisory group<\/li>\n<li>Decision not to proceed with further culls as effectiveness called into question<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it? Trial badger cull conducted by Independent Scientific Group on Cattle TB (ISG) Assessed effectiveness of different types of culling for bTB control using the following experimental conditions: Major Findings? Perturbation effect\u00a0with proactive\u00a0culling Areas outside cull resulted in more bTB infections due to increased movements of badgers to escape cull, resulting in spread &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/2016\/03\/30\/randomised-badger-culling-trials\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Randomised Badger Culling Trials (1998-2007)<\/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":[1599846],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-cull"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","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=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}