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Standing up for badgers
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2025 News round-up - The Badger Crowd - standing up for badgers
Annual review of science of bovine TB and badgers, looking at new scientific publications, parliamentary debates, government reviews
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Bovine TB and Badgers.... A 2025 news round-up
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2025 News round-up - The Badger Crowd - standing up for badgers
Annual review of science of bovine TB and badgers, looking at new scientific publications, parliamentary debates, government reviews
https://thebadgercrowd.org/2025-news-round-up
25 days ago
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‘Perturbation Effect Hypothesis’ for badgers and Bovine TB is now unevidenced
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‘Perturbation Effect Hypothesis’ for badgers and Bovine TB is now unevidenced
The ‘perturbation effect hypothesis’ is the reported ‘negative’ effect of reactive and proactive badger culling, described in the Donnelly et al (2006) paper “Positive and negative effects of wides…
https://thebadgercrowd.org/bovine-tb-badger-perturbation-effect-hypothesis-no-longer-evidenced
about 2 months ago
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Protect the Wild
about 2 months ago
Bovine tuberculosis; badgers finally in the clear!
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Cattle tuberculosis; badgers finally in the clear - British Wildlife
Bovine tuberculosis; badgers finally in the clear In the May 2023 issue of British Wildlife, I described the ‘weakened link’ between badgers and bovine TB (bTB) infection in cattle. Since that…
https://www.britishwildlife.com/cattle-tuberculosis-badgers-finally-in-the-clear/
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British Wildlife
about 2 months ago
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British Wildlife
about 2 months ago
And following Rosie Wood of
@badgertrust.bsky.social
’s recent column on the ongoing legal battle surrounding badger culling in the UK,
@tomlangton.bsky.social
summarises findings from recent research on bovine tuberculosis and badgers. Read the feature here:
www.britishwildlife.com/cattle-tuber...
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British Wildlife
about 2 months ago
The latest British Wildlife newsletter is now available, our monthly round-up from the magazines featuring exclusive book reviews, highlights from the back catalogue, and conversations with our authors. You can read the November newsletter here:
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BTB control contradictions at the APHA
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BTB control contradictions at the APHA
In late November 2025 APHA published online their annual report on bTB for last year: “Bovine tuberculosis in England in 2024 Epidemiological analysis of the 2024 surveillance data and historical t…
https://thebadgercrowd.org/contradictions-at-apha
2 months ago
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Low Risk Area (LRA) culling must be scrapped for good
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Low Risk Area (LRA) culling must be scrapped for good
A Cumbria badger bloodbath At the Westminster Hall Debate on the 13th October, Angela Eagle the Defra Minister of State confirmed that the badger cull would come to an end in February 2026 in all b…
https://thebadgercrowd.org/low-risk-area-lra-culling-must-be-scrapped-for-good
3 months ago
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Wild Justice
3 months ago
Natural England tried to price us out of taking legal action against Badger culling but it backfired when the High Court threw out NE's claim ⚖️ We continue. Substantive legal challenge against NE Badger cull licences takes place in December 🦡 Press release 🔽
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High Court rejects Natural England bid to hike legal costs for campaigners challenging badger culling - Wild Justice
An attempt by Natural England to hike campaigners’ legal costs to challenge badger culling licences has been blocked by the […]
https://wildjustice.org.uk/badgers/high-court-rejects-natural-england-bid-to-hike-legal-costs-for-campaigners-challenging-badger-culling/
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Westminster Hall debate on ending Badger Culling, 13 October 2025
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Westminster Hall debate on ending Badger Culling, 13 October 2025
The Westminster Hall debate of the Protect the Wild petition, held on 13th October, was a significant improvement on previous badger cull debates. The majority of voices spoke earnestly about a wi…
https://thebadgercrowd.org/westminster-hall-debate-on-badger-culling-13-october-2025
3 months ago
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"The Randomised Badger Culling Trial (1998-2005); proactive badger culling analyses were not weak, but invalid." Follow-up to the recent Bovine TB strategy review update by the Godfray panel, new preprint;
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4 months ago
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2038 Bovine TB targets on the scrap heap, with details of failed policy increasingly exposed
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2038 Bovine TB targets on the scrap heap, with details of failed policy increasingly exposed
Why was the use of Gamma interfreon testing, alongside use of the tuberculin test (SICCT), under-declared in APHA’s central bovine TB control evaluation paper (Birch et al 2024) last year, and also…
https://thebadgercrowd.org/2038-bovine-tb-targets-on-the-scrap-heap-with-details-of-failed-policy-increasingly-exposed
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Badger Crowd looks at 'Chapter 6. The disease in wildlife' in Godfray's recent review of bovine TB science
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Godfray ‘science’ report simply adds to the bovine TB chaos
Panel Chair: Professor Sir Charles Godfray The long-awaited ‘Godfray’ report, a review of scientific evidence since 2018 concerning bovine TB in cattle, was published on 4th September. …
https://thebadgercrowd.org/godfray-science-report-simply-adds-to-the-bovine-tb-chaos
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Cattle testing with Gamma interferon
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Cattle testing with Gamma interferon
On 19th August, Defra sent an email to ‘stakeholders’ announcing that as part of the work to refresh the bTB strategy, it will be “enhancing test sensitivity in cattle herds”. This is “…
https://thebadgercrowd.org/enhanced-cattle-testing-with-gamma
5 months ago
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Is Diddly Squat Farm seeing the light on bovine TB testing and spread?
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Is Diddly Squat Farm seeing the light on bovine TB testing and spread?
The Diddly Squat Farm, owned by TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson and a part of the ‘Clarkson’s Farm TV show’, was the subject last week of multiple media reports on positive bovine TB tests in their sm…
https://thebadgercrowd.org/jeremy-clarkson
6 months ago
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The Cornwall badger vaccination project – why the secrecy and confusion?
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The Cornwall badger vaccination project – why the secrecy and confusion?
On 30th July, Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle Green received a reply to her written Parliamentary Question: “To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the paper by To…
https://thebadgercrowd.org/the-new-badger-vaccination-trial-whats-it-going-to-show
6 months ago
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The push for badger vaccination...what's behind it?
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Vacuous vaccination?
Badger blame folly continues undercover Have you noticed how quiet the NFU have become over badger culling since Labour came to power? Why could this be? Badger Politics In 2024 there was an agree…
https://thebadgercrowd.org/vacuous-vaccination
6 months ago
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7 months ago
The 2025 ‘Torgerson’ scientific paper
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The 2025 ‘Torgerson’ scientific paper
“The fall of the perturbation effect hypothesis” Professor Paul Torgerson The new scientific Comment paper by Paul Torgerson and colleagues was published on 11 June in Royal Society Ope…
https://thebadgercrowd.org/the-new-torgerson-scientific-paper
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Government say they will look at newly published evidence on statistical flaws in Randomised Badger Culling Trial in their review of bTB science
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Science row erupts over badger cull effectiveness after ‘flawed analysis’
Study, published in Royal Society Open Science, raises questions about the 2006 Randomised Badger Culling Trial (RBCT), which the previous UK Government had use
https://www.vettimes.com/news/vet-nursing/livestock-vet-nursing/science-row-erupts-over-badger-cull-effectiveness-after-flawed-analysis
7 months ago
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Well deserved award for Herts Badger group member Mary Barton.
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Campaigner from Welwyn wins national award for fighting to protect badgers
A passionate campaigner from Welwyn has received a national award for her dedication and commitment to fighting for the protection of badgers.
https://www.whtimes.co.uk/news/25281550.welwyn-campaigner-wins-award-fighting-protect-badgers/?ref=li
7 months ago
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Important review of new RBCT analysis:
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7 months ago
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Protect the Wild
8 months ago
Yet more scientific evidence emerges that discredits the government's scandalous badger killing policy
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BREAKING: The science behind the badger cull just collapsed
Yet more scientific evidence emerges that discredits the government's scandalous badger killing policy
https://protectthewild.substack.com/p/a-timely-new-probe-strengthens-case
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8 months ago
This is huge. Please share widely.
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‘Bombshell’ badger cull study review ‘disproves evidence’ used to justify killings
‘Justification for lethal control to date appears to have been based on basic statistical oversight,’ says study
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/badger-cull-study-paper-btb-labour-government-b2765299.html
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‘Bombshell’ badger cull study review ‘disproves evidence’ used to justify killings
‘Justification for lethal control to date appears to have been based on basic statistical oversight,’ says study
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/badger-cull-study-paper-btb-labour-government-b2765299.html
8 months ago
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Find out more about the new scientific paper published today on analysis and results of the Randomised Badger Culling Trials:
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8 months ago
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Green Party continues to call for end to badger culling
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Green Party continues to call for end to badger culling
In response to the new scientific paper published in Royal Society Open Science today, Natalie Bennett has re-iterated the Green Party’s call to bring an end to badger culling. She is quoted …
https://thebadgercrowd.org/green-party-continues-to-call-for-end-to-badger-culling
8 months ago
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Tom Langton
8 months ago
Randomised Badger Culling Trials: new evaluation
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RBCT: New evaluation.
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Badger cull expansion given go-ahead by officials – against advice of own science chief
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Badger cull expansion given go-ahead by officials against advice of own science chief
Exclusive: Supplementary culls set to begin in nine areas from Sunday and 10 areas from September
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/badger-cull-licence-area-2025-b2761061.html
8 months ago
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Pádraic Fogarty
8 months ago
Listen back to the brief debate this week between myself and the IFA on the failure of the livestock industry to get a grip on ballooning levels of TB
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Opposition TDs take issue with Government's badger-culling programme
Pádraic Fogarty, ecologist and TJ Maher, Chair of the IFA's Animal Health Committee, debate the need to cull wild badgers as part of efforts to prevent the spread of TB in cattle.
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22515226/
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Breakdowns return after six years. Normal for the failed testing regime being used. These farmers should be told the truth.
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‘It’s the next worst thing to losing a family member’: The toll of Ireland’s bovine TB crisis
As TB numbers continue to rise across Irish farms, The Journal Investigates speaks to those in the farming community carrying the huge financial and emotional loss.
https://www.thejournal.ie/ireland-bovine-tb-crisis-6709594-May2025/?utm_source=shortlink
8 months ago
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Dopey DAFM snaring and shooting healthy and vaccinated badgers. No wonder the EU are after them.
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Over 80% of badgers culled in government TB programme found to be free from the disease
More than 8,000 badgers destroyed by DAFM in a nation-wide crackdown to eradicate bovine tuberculosis were found to be infection free following post-mortems.
https://www.thejournal.ie/badger-culling-ireland-6709659-May2025/?utm_source=shortlink
8 months ago
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Activism and the Scientist: it is surely sensible that “scientists have the right and responsibility to engage in activism” because “their expertise and ethical responsibility position them well to change policy”
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9 months ago
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Is Test Vaccinate Remove (TVR) the new corrupted thinking? New blog:
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9 months ago
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Protect the Wild
10 months ago
Govt continues to defend sham Badger cull “review”
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Govt continues to defend sham Badger cull “review”
YouTube video by Protect the Wild
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How on earth did badgers ger the bovine TB blame?
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How on earth did badgers get the TB blame?
Bovine TB has been misunderstood for 50 years. All because new interpretations by MAFF in 1980 sent industry and scientists in the wrong direction. A new short report here now tells the story of h…
https://thebadgercrowd.org/how-did-badgers-get-the-blame
11 months ago
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URGENT Total badger cull and TB testing failure in the Low Risk Area of England - LRA heading out of control due to predictable APHA failures. Zeichner myst act immediately.
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The Badger Crowd - standing up for badgers
Reporting on badger cull science & legal challenges
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11 months ago
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‘Science and Politics’ by Ian Boyd
Hiding in plain sight with the Oxford brigade Prof. Sir Ian Boyd has a book out: ‘Science and Politics’ (politybooks.com, around £20). In it, he devotes several pages to describing the events that …
https://thebadgercrowd.org/science-and-politics-by-ian-boyd
11 months ago
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Badger cull review details announced: Government to review the last six years of bTB science for its ‘refreshed’ bovine TB strategy
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11 months ago
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Posts (2018-2024) from Twitter/X are being transferred over to Bluesky by
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. They do lose their original date stamp, but if you click on them, each post has an 'archive stamp' with the date of the original post.
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The Badger Crowd - standing up for badgers
Reporting on badger cull science & legal challenges
https://thebadgercrowd.org/
12 months ago
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Government to review the last six years of bTB science for its ‘refreshed’ bovine TB strategy. How objective will the new review be?
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Labour Government & badger culling
Government to review the last six years of bTB science for its ‘refreshed’ bovine TB strategy. On 30th January 2025, Defra issued Terms of Reference (here) for the ‘comprehensive new bo…
https://thebadgercrowd.org/how-serious-is-labour-about-their-new-bovine-tb-strategy
12 months ago
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Defra to fritter funds on 3-year can-kick.
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Defra set to award NFU £1.4m for badger vaccination pilot - Farmers Weekly
Defra is set to allocate the NFU a £1.4m contract for a three-year badger vaccination and research project in Cornwall. The pilot, which is due to begin
https://www.fwi.co.uk/livestock/health-welfare/livestock-diseases/bovine-tb/defra-set-to-award-nfu-1-4m-for-badger-vaccination-pilot
12 months ago
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DAERA bTB partnership group holds first meeting.
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DAERA establishes new Tuberculosis Partnership Steering Group
Northern Ireland’s Chief Veterinary Officer (CVO) Mr Brian Dooher has met with the new TB Partnership Steering Group for the first time to explore proposals to eradicate bovine Tuberculosis (bTB).
https://www.daera-ni.gov.uk/news/daera-establishes-new-tuberculosis-partnership-steering-group
12 months ago
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Bovine TB jargon explainer The TB status of cattle herds – how does that work?
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Bovine TB jargon explainer
The TB status of cattle herds – how does that work? The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) maintain in recent publications (Birch et al. 2024 and APHA epidemiology reports for 2023) that it is t…
https://thebadgercrowd.org/bovine-tb-jargon
12 months ago
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Protect the Wild
about 1 year ago
Opposite Downing Street earlier today, campaigners aren’t giving up. The Badger cull must end.
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Jenny Jones
about 1 year ago
Please sign to help end this cruelty. And then repost.
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Protect the Wild
about 1 year ago
End the massacre of badgers! The cull is cruel, ineffective, and completely unnecessary. Labour knows this, yet they drag their feet on banning it. Demand action now—sign the petition to save the badgers. 👉
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700317
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