Based on past history along with what people are saying privately and the playing around with facts by DEFRA (someone there apparently does not like me) my own assessment is that it is far more likely that 80% of the badger population has been killed off.
Remember that DEFRA is pushing ahead with expanding the cull into areas with no bovine TB history and it is their stated policy to wipe out large areas of badgers.... badgers that are so few in number that they cannot find enough to kill. Stated fact.
If the unscientific cull was stopped tomorrow, bearing in mind the number of badgers killed on the roads each year and "illegal" killings on private e4states and farms where "badger men" are still employed, then it would probably take30+ years for the population to get back to anywhere near pre-cull numbers if we are lucky.
A species that survived centuries of melecide and finally got protection in the 1970s is now legally being eradicated -wiped out- for politically corrupt reasons.
In 80-90 years a "reintroduction" of badgers will make no difference because the original population was slaughtered into extinction. And foxes will accompany them into extinction Forever
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