The Deer Initiative (DI), which is dedicated to a sustainable, managed deer population in England and Wales, has carried out research into how a cull might be carried out.
But a Defra spokesman said a cull "carried out in the right way can make a meaningful contribution" to controlling TB.
None of this means you should go out and cull your network herd down to 150.
They insist the cull will be carried out "sensitively" using silenced shotguns, in spring when the geese start to nest.
Farmers have a matter of weeks to raise the funds needed to carry out the cull on 70% of farmland in the two pilot zones.
According to the government's own bovine-tb-impact-assessment, the public costs of carrying out the cull exceed any money saved from predicted falls in bovine TB (an average 16% reduction in new cases over nine years - in absolute figures, this amounts to preventing 47 out of 292 infected herds, for an area about half the size of the Gloucestershire pilot zone).
Manx National Heritage (MNH) has been carrying out a rat cull on the islet to remove the threat from the birds.
Mr Brown said vaccination had not been ruled out but the cull policy continued, amid concerns about pollution from the burning pyres.
But the Labour MP said she still felt she had to speak out against the cull, because she believes the government is using questionable science to justify it.
But the publication of the paper in the scientific journal Lutra just before last Christmas seems to have been the catalyst that the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SSPCA) needed to come out against the cull.
Queen guitarist Brian May has spoken out against a planned cull of badgers in the West Country.
Campaigners against a badger cull are calling on local politicians to sign a pledge to rule out culling on council land.
Mr Wood is now contemplating the certainty that his entire flock will be destroyed as the Irish government sets out on what agriculture minister Joe Walsh called an 'aggressive cull' in the Cooley peninsula area.
But, for the most part, they engaged in parachute journalism, getting in and getting out, and, in the process, failing to do much more than cull the most superficial information from a deeply complex world.
Then, when three years had passed after the removal of the mistletoe from some of them (during which time they continued to cull any resurgent bunches of mistletoe from the trees in the experimental patches), they carried out another extended bird survey.
But, hoping to save the Tasmanian devil, Sarcophilus harrisii, from the facial cancer that has wiped out more than 90% of individuals in some areas, conservation biologists have trialled a cull since 2004.
The planned cull is part of a joint effort by the Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland governments to try to stamp out foot-and-mouth disease.
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