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Nearly 40,000 badgers killed as Tories were planning consultation on ending cull

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Nearly 40,000 badgers were killed in last autumn's cull at the same time as ministers were drawing up plans to consult on scrapping the scheme.

A total of 38,642 were slaughtered in the annual programme designed at curbing the spread of tuberculosis in cows, according to latest Environment Department figures.

The toll means 140,830 badgers have now been culled since 2013. Dominic Dyer, of animal welfare charity Born Free, said: “Over 140,000 badgers have now been slaughtered under the badger cull policy since 2013 at a public cost over £70million in the largest mass destruction of a protected species in living memory. “Despite the huge cost and cruelty of the cull policy, the Government has produced no reliable evidence to show badger

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