Sentence examples for widespread culling from inspiring English sources

The survey also reported "significant and widespread culling and disturbance measures" in the area in 2012.

Even without using the model, it is clear that in an 18-month period after widespread culling stopped in the trial, cattle TB in the culling area was reduced by roughly half.

When officials impose widespread culling, industrial-scale poultry producers -- like the company that owns the large British turkey farm where bird flu was found this month -- usually have the resources to absorb the losses.

Part of the widespread culling going on at Yahoo under the new leadership of Carol Bartz, the demise of Geocities was greeted with a sort of yowling noise when its imminent execution was announced.

Scientists reported that carefully targeted culling can be just as effective as widespread culling, and less disruptive.

Data presented here come from RBCT areas subjected to proactive culling (widespread culling, repeated approximately annually) and from their matched no-culling controls.

Ministers are poised to give the go-ahead to a widespread cull of badgers in a bid to halt the growing spread of tuberculosis in cattle – with a significant gap still remaining in the science behind the move.

Several ecologists have also raised doubts over the plan, stating that feral cats can only be wiped out in small, fenced-off areas and that after any widespread cull the dead animals would simply be replaced by other cats.

The RBCT involved comparing the incidence of cattle bTB under three experimental treatments — repeated widespread ("proactive") culling, localized ("reactive") culling, and no culling ("survey-only") — each replicated ten times in large (100 km2) trial areas recruited as matched sets of three, known as "triplets".

Our study complements previous analyses of the RBCT data (focusing on treatment effects) by presenting analyses of herd-level risks factors associated with the probability of a confirmed bTB breakdown in herds within each treatment: repeated widespread proactive culling, localized reactive culling and no culling (survey-only).

Here, we use updated cattle TB incidence data from RBCT areas to determine the duration of the effects of repeated widespread badger culling on cattle TB following the cessation of culling.