UK farmers encouraged to kill badgers for a bounty

Farmers in England are being encouraged to cull badgers and receive a bounty of £50 (€ 57, US$?67) per head in a further bid to reduce the bovine TB disease that is widespread there. Badgers have long been associated with spreading bTB among cattle but various programmes costing millions have failed to keep the disease under control. Figures show that the number of cows that are being slaughtered because they have been infected with the bTB disease has significantly risen over