Badger Ecology, Bovine Tuberculosis, and Population Management: Lessons from the Island of Ireland

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(a) Location of non-inferiority badger vaccine field study sites where vaccination areas (green) were compared with continued targeted culling (yellow) within the same county. (b) Details of one study area (Longford). Dots represent known sett (burrow) locations at the commencement of the study (n = 810; main = 193, non-main = 617); blue areas represent a 1 km buffered treatment area around each sett. Untreated areas within the vaccine area predominantly represent poor badger habitats. (c) County Kilkenny, with the location of the badger vaccination trial area depicted in black outline. The surface represents the relative probability of occurrence of badger groups.