Badgers & Bovine TB with Alick Simmons

<p style="text-align:center;">Every year in England, the topic of Bovine TB & Badgers hits the media, & rightly so. Our governments solution to try to eradicate this disease or control the problem is to shoot A LOT of badgers. Has it worked? What else could be done? Why lethal control? Is this affecting badgers? Could we not try something less....aggressive?</p> <p style="text-align:center;">These are all questions I wanted answers to & I was lucky enough to get the chance to talk with veterinarian & naturalist Alick Simmons about this very topic. Alick has had a extensive career working in public health, animal welfare & epidemic disease control & I was keen to get the run down on what the heck has been going on with B-TB for the last several years.</p> <p style="text-align:center;">If you'd like to keep up to date with Tania, you can follow him on Twitter <a href='https://twitter.com/alicksimmons?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor'>@AlickSimmons</a></p> <p style="text-align:center;">To follow us on social media visit <a href='https://twitter.com/intothewildpod?lang=en'>@intothewildpod</a> for Twitter & <a href='https://www.instagram.com/intothewildpodcast/'>@intothewildpodcast</a> for Instagram. You can also find Ryan on <a href='https://twitter.com/mrryanjdalton?lang=en'>@mrryanjdalton</a></p> <p style="text-align:center;">Love the show or simply enjoyed this episode? You can buy us a coffee to say ta at <a href='https://ko-fi.com/intothewildpod'>https://ko-fi.com/intothewildpod</a></p> <p style="text-align:center;">MERCH: <a href='https://intothewildpodcast.teemill.com/'>intothewildpodcast.teemill.com</a></p> <p style="text-align:center;">Into The Wild is your weekly wildlife, nature & conservation podcast, bringing you chat from professionals about a huge variety of wild topics.</p> <p style="text-align:center;">This episode is sponsored by <a href='https://store.leica-camera.com/uk/en/sport-optics'>Leica Sport Optics.</a></p> <p>   </p>