Wildlife presenter Chris Packham was reprimanded by the BBC for tweeting his views on the culling of badgers.
Mr Packham branded government officials 'brutalist thugs, liars and frauds' in a series of tweets.
He posted the tweets at the end of August on the eve of a cull said to be aimed at stopping the spread of bovine tuberculosis.
Another one of the tweets read: 'I feel sick, sad disempowered, betrayed, angry and crushed by the corruption of all that I know is right.'
BBC bosses launched an investigation into the tweets following a complaint by the Countryside Alliance which claimed they went against BBC impartiality rules.
Read the offending tweets here - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2496419/Wildlife-presenter-Chris-Packham-censured-BBC-tweeting-governments-badger-cull-brutalist-thugs-liars-frauds.html
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Badger cull exposed as cruel and pointless fiasco.
The science behind the murder of 5,300 of our most popular wild animals is bitterly contested, with a growing numbers of scientists and agricultural experts now arguing that it could well make the spread of Bovine TB (for which badgers are blamed) much worse.
Many local people believe that the real reasons behind the slaughter is the thousands of votes that the Countryside Alliance can deliver for the Tories in marginal rural areas.
The Hunting and Shooting set have long been in favour of the cull. Not least because of the threat that badgers pose to pheasants being reared in pens.
REEL NEWS discovered during our visits that many of the setts being targeted were miles from any cattle but close to shoots.
This supports the claim that this cull is really about protecting the profits of people who charge city gents up to £3,000 a day to blow overfed game birds from the sky.
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The alternative to a badger cull: vaccinations
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