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Back to badgers.
Comparison was raised earlier in conversation between culling here and ethical questions of Australian introduction of Myxomatosis in the 1950s and, when a resistance had reached 50 per cent effectiveness, the introduction by the Aus Government of rabbit Calicivirus as late as 1996. Interesting looking at secondary and tertiary affects of the virus when it was introduced to France and continental Europe - and later the UK (i.e. the decline of Iberian Lynx populations and near-extinction of the Spanish Imperial Eagle which relied on rabbit for their diet). Oddly, despite being introduced to the country illegal in the 1950s, the Government here have refused to sign legislation against deliberately spreading (myxie) further despite us clearly not having the 'pandemic' population that Australia admittedly suffered (600 million rabbits down to 100 million in two years). Having grown up on a farm in a region where it was prevalent, the effects of myxie on local ecology is no fun at all to watch.