As well as the badger cull… more recently they are now looking at a wild boar cull because humans and boars are clashing in a dramatic fashion apparently. The only person they interviewed about it said a boar had dug up his front lawn. Oh by-golly by-gum… call the executioner! Idiots ¬_¬ OH! and they are calling for a cull on deer as well…. Cause they are just swarming the place! ¬_¬ I fear I may not be able to find Boar and Deer onesies to wear when I go a protesting

I recently learned about badger culling in the UK… I was very distressed about this, because that is one of my favorite animals :’( anyway, it seemed to be because they were interfering with farming… They can transmit a disease to cows… Sigh… Poor cows and poor badgers, and poor humans who get sick from eating deceased cow flesh

If it was overpopulated, I think that maybe they could humanly catch them and neuter/spay them, then once it is made sure that they have recovered – release them. But I agree with @MysteryMalice, I don’t think that wildlife is overpopulated. Like she said, when was the last time that you saw hedgehogs or foxes. We need to save wildlife – not kill them!

Maybe we could cull the overpopulation of chavs?

Hold up? We’re overpopulated with wildlife? wtf? When was the last time any of us saw a badger or a fox just ambling by? I sure haven’t. The only foxes I’ve seen have been severely underweight and ill looking and I’ve never seen a badger that hasn’t been on the side of a dual carriage way dead.
Plus the last I heard was that most of British wildlife is under threat.
Usually the ‘overpopulation’ argument crops up when the toffs are all looking for a loophole to hunt.

I’m in the U.S. but I believe this applies to everywhere.
Humans are the most over-populated species on the planet, but we still seem to think we have the right to play god when it comes to the over population of other species.
We forget that this planet does not belong to us, nor do the other living things on it.
We should be the care-takers, but instead we’ve become the destroyers.
Why do we, as a species, think we have the right to try to contain/limit other species, when we can’t even contain ourselves?
Lets capture, spay/neuter. release humans for a while, or having human hunting week.
That ought to take care of a lot of problems.

There is no such thing as ‘overpopulation’ besides, capture, neuter/spay, release works for other species so why not try and implement that instead? People would rather kill something it would seem.

Good point, however we can’t choose how the government react to this, and they’ve decided to kill a lot off again.

My opinion is we should stop thinking of them as ‘overpopulated’, if we (humans) hadn’t interferred then the balance of nature wouldn’t be affected. People only think that some species are ‘overpopulated’ because it interferes with human activities.

In my opinion to prevent a lot of them of getting hunted and killed, more animal sanctuaries should be opened, humane, kind and professional of course. To insure the animals live a great long life. Also they would be able to educate a lot more people of wildlife and increase people’s interests in animals, and will therefore create a wider animal loving community which will help their welfare! But what’s your opinion?