by greg » Fri Dec 25, 2015 12:33 am
The Badger has to be vaccinated each year, so the figure is a bit higher than that. Here's a piece from the tbfree website ........
You need to cage-trap the badgers to vaccinate them. And you have to it annually for period of at least five years.
The process is costly and needs to be carried out by people who have been on accredited courses. Every trap has to be visited early in the morning, every day.
The Welsh Assembly Government is carrying out a five-year badger vaccination programme in the Pembrokehsire hotspot area.
During the first two years of the programme a total of 2,776 badgers were vaccinated at a total cost of £1,869,784 - an average of roughly £673 per badger. This could mean that over the five-year period of the programme vaccination could cost around £3,365 per vaccinated badger .
There are question marks over the efficacy of the vaccine, so much more research has to be done to provide a successful vaccine. This is where the real costs come in.