article_snippet.sent: The two four-year pilot culls in Somerset and Gloucestershire should be completed by trapping Free-running badgers in cages and then shooting The two four-year pilot culls in Somerset and Gloucestershire, says BVA.
article_snippet.sent: BVA concluded that the first two years of culling had not demonstrated conclusively that ‘controlled shooting’ of Free-running badgers could be effective and humane.
article_snippet.sent: The two four-year pilot culls in Somerset and Gloucestershire Somerset and Gloucestershire Gloucestershire should be completed by trapping Free-running badgers in cages and then shooting The two four-year pilot culls in Somerset and Gloucestershire, says BVA .
article_snippet.sent: In Gloucestershire just 274 badgers were culled in the second year of the pilot, falling far short of the minimum 615 estimated to be needed to deliver reductions in TB in livestock, leading the chief vet to admit the benefits of the cull might not be realised there.
article_snippet.sent: In Somerset, where the other pilot cull has been carried out, a sufficient number of badgers were killed this year to lead to expected reductions in TB in cattle, with 341 culled, in a required range of 316 to 785.
highlights_snippet.sent: Free-running badgers would be trapped and shot in controversial method .
  