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The government has now decided to abandon the time limit and access requirement and to reduce the minimum cull area.
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The initial restrictions imposed on badger culling were to ensure 70% of badgers were killed and included having access to 70% of cull land, a six-week time limit on the cull and a minimum size of cull area.
The minimum cull number was then set sufficiently high to be confident that at least 70% of badgers would be culled.
That trial found that, at best, TB incidence was reduced in the cull area by just 16% after nine years.
It also showed that there was an increase in TB infections outside the cull area.
However, when the researchers looked at farms within 2 kilometers of a cull area, they found a 29% increase in TB incidence relative to farms adjacent to no-cull areas.
To have an active cull area in the Forest of Dean I think can only do damage to its reputation.
"Going from six to 14 weeks (as they have in the Gloucestershire cull area) is uncharted territory," she told BBC News.
They were dropped after assurances were given that the charity would not "name and shame" farmers involved in culls or encourage a boycott of milk in cull areas.
The new cull areas will be much larger and will have no upper size limit.
There has been no decision on the number of cull areas for 2016.
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