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Badger Meles meles as Ecosystem Engineer and Its Legal Status in Europe
Animals, 2022 The European badger plays an important role as a natural factor shaping species diversity in forests. Its extensive setts can be used by many other animals as shelters.
Przemysław Kurek +7 more
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Animals, 2021 The present work investigated the prevalence, spatial distribution, and temporal distribution of tuberculosis (TB) in free-ranging Eurasian badgers (Meles meles) and cattle in Asturias (Atlantic Spain) during a 13-year follow-up.
Cristina Blanco Vázquez +11 more
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Badger vaccination in England: Progress, operational effectiveness and participant motivations
People and Nature, 2020 In 2010 a vaccine was licensed for use in badgers in the United Kingdom to reduce the severity of Mycobacterium bovis infection, and hence the risks of onward transmission to cattle. National legislation was enacted to allow its deployment by lay persons,
Clare H. Benton +6 more
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Journal of Applied Ecology, 2019 Culling wildlife as a form of disease management can have unexpected and sometimes counterproductive outcomes. In the UK, badgers Meles meles are culled in efforts to reduce badger‐to‐cattle transmission of Mycobacterium bovis, the causative agent of ...
Cally Ham +2 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2019 European badgers (Meles meles) are group‐living mustelids implicated in the spread of bovine tuberculosis (TB) to cattle and act as a wildlife reservoir for the disease.
Aoibheann Gaughran +6 more
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Bovine Tuberculosis and Badger Control in Britain: Science, Policy and Politics
Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 2017 Bovine tuberculosis (bovine TB) is the most economically important animal health policy issue in Britain. The problem of what to do about badgers has plagued successive governments since a dead badger was discovered with bovine TB in 1971.
Steven Mcculloch +2 more
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Bovine Tuberculosis and Badger Culling in England: A Utilitarian Analysis of Policy Options
Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 2017 Bovine tuberculosis (bovine TB) is an important animal health policy issue in Britain, which impacts farmers, the public, domestic farmed cattle and the wild badger population. The Westminster government’s badger culling policy in England, which began in
Steven Mcculloch +2 more
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An Improved Honey Badger Algorithm for Coverage Optimization in Wireless Sensor Network
網際網路技術學刊, 2023 One of the critical indicators for a significant impact on the quality of service of wireless sensor networks (WSN) is coverage that directly determines the monitoring capability of the target monitoring area.
Trong-The Nguyen Trong-The Nguyen +3 more
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bioRxiv, 2023 Persistent tuberculosis (TB) in cattle populations in England has been associated with an exchange of infection with badgers (Meles meles). A badger control policy (BCP) commenced in 2013.
C. Birch +5 more
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Heliyon, 2023 This work proposed a new method to optimize the antenna S-parameter using a Golden Sine mechanism-based Honey Badger Algorithm that employs Tent chaos (GST-HBA).
O. Adegboye +6 more
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