01/09/2013
As a trial badger cull is underway in parts of Somerset, Caz Graham joins the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust as their staff go out vaccinating badgers against bovine TB.
As a trial badger cull is underway in parts of Somerset, and is likely to start in parts of Gloucestershire, Caz Graham joins the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust vaccinating badgers against bovine TB on Greystones Farm in Bourton-on-the-Water.
The trust has embarked on a five year trial, vaccinating badgers on two sites in Gloucestershire to test the vaccine's efficacy. Their staff trap badgers and inject them with a BCG vaccine, before releasing them back into the wild.
Caz visits farmers in the surrounding area to gauge their opinions on both the cull and badger vaccination as ways to tackle the problem of TB in cattle.
Presenter: Caz Graham
Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts.
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