Pilot cull to end earlier than planned after Natural England revokes licence over failure to meet greatly reduced targets
The controversial badger cull in Gloucestershire is being abandoned after marksmen failed to kill enough animals to meet even drastically reduced targets, the Guardian revealed on Friday.
The collapse of the culling trial represents a humiliation for the government's policy as it means every target set has now been missed.
Natural England (NE) will revoke the culling licence and the cull will end at noon on Saturday, three weeks earlier than planned. The cull, intended to help curb tuberculosis in cattle, was initially tasked with killing 70% of all badgers in the area in a maximum of six weeks.
But just 30% were killed in that time, leading to an eight-week extension that was granted against the advice of the lead scientist on NE's board.
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