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Britain plans to kill as many as20,000 badgers in several hot spotsfor bovine tuberculosis over the nextfour years. But the move is facingstiff internal opposition. Signatoriesto the Bern Convention on wildlifeprotection in Europe had voted to@4nvestigate whether the experimental cull violates three articles of thetreaty, and to ask Britain to stop@,thekillings for a year. However, the cull,which aims to reveal whether killingthe badgers reduces bovine tubercu-losis, went ahead in the North Devonregion in December 1998.