Remember the culling of hedgehogs and such discussed in the Switchboard? Witness the downside: The Badgers' Revenge. From Nature:
Changes in badgers' social life after culling could undermine efforts to control bovine tuberculosis (TB), British ecologists have found. The surviving badgers bunch up, causing groups' territories to overlap more, possibly promoting disease transmission.
The more complex the system, the less predictable the outcome.
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