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A Computational Re-evaluation of Spatial Trials for Zoonotic Tuberculosis Control: Model Misspecification, Diagnostic Miss-classification, and the Illusion of Wildlife Culling Efficacy | bioRxiv share.google/LEYz3tbwaths...
A Computational Re-evaluation of Spatial Trials for Zoonotic Tuberculosis Control: Model Misspecification, Diagnostic Miss-classification, and the Illusion of Wildlife Culling Efficacy
This paper evaluates the computational and epidemiological robustness of the historical Randomised Badger Culling Trial (RBCT), the foundational empirical experiment guiding zoonotic tuberculosis (Myc...
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Badger interventions in Low Risk Area of England show no benefits Follow up study confirms no sign of badger culls having an effect on cattle TB after 8 years in the LRA, as with findings from the HRA and Edge areas. thebadgercrowd.org/no-effect-of...
Badger interventions in Low Risk Area of England show no benefits - The Badger Crowd - standing up for badgers
Follow up study confirms no sign of badger culls having an effect on cattle TB after 8 years in the LRA, as with findings from the HRA and Edge areas. In 2023, seven independent experts compiled a rev...
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Badger cull threat grows in Northern Ireland Stormont has backed wildlife intervention thebadgercrowd.org/badger-cull-...
Badger cull threat grows in Northern Ireland - The Badger Crowd - standing up for badgers
Stormont has backed wildlife intervention In April, Farmers Weekly reported (here), that Stormont (the Northern Ireland Assembly or government) has backed urgent action to address the lack of progress...
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Bovine TB strategy refresh is already stale. Failure to co-design bTB control strategy is coming to a head. Time to ring the alarm bells? thebadgercrowd.org/bovine-tb-st...
Bovine TB strategy refresh is already stale - The Badger Crowd - standing up for badgers
Failure to co-design bTB control strategy is coming to a head. Time to ring the alarm bells? At the end of March, Defra Minister Angela Eagle and some of her bovine TB team met with a handful of repre...
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Will Defra advise Labour to U-turn and allow badger culling? New blog: thebadgercrowd.org/will-defra-a...
Will Defra advise Labour to U-turn and allow badger culling? - The Badger Crowd - standing up for badgers
The Westminster Hall debate on badger culling last October, attended by Defra Minister Angela Eagle, gave the impression that under a Labour administration, badger culling was finally going to give wa...
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Playing Possum. Surely Ireland is not serious about a Test Vaccinate Remove policy for badgers? thebadgercrowd.org/playing-possum
We will never stop fighting for this iconic British species
‘Perturbation Effect Hypothesis’ for badgers and Bovine TB is now unevidenced thebadgercrowd.org/bovine-tb-ba...
‘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…
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Bovine tuberculosis; badgers finally in the clear!
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…
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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...
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: us6.campaign-archive.com?e=__test_ema...
BTB control contradictions at the APHA thebadgercrowd.org/contradictio...
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…
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Low Risk Area (LRA) culling must be scrapped for good thebadgercrowd.org/low-risk-are...
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…
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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 🔽 wildjustice.org.uk/badgers/high...
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 […]
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Westminster Hall debate on ending Badger Culling, 13 October 2025 thebadgercrowd.org/westminster-...
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…
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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; figshare.com/articles/dat...
2038 Bovine TB targets on the scrap heap, with details of failed policy increasingly exposed thebadgercrowd.org/2038-bovine-...
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…
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Badger Crowd looks at 'Chapter 6. The disease in wildlife' in Godfray's recent review of bovine TB science thebadgercrowd.org/godfray-scie...
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. …
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Cattle testing with Gamma interferon thebadgercrowd.org/enhanced-cat...
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 “…
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Is Diddly Squat Farm seeing the light on bovine TB testing and spread? thebadgercrowd.org/jeremy-clark...
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…
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The Cornwall badger vaccination project – why the secrecy and confusion? thebadgercrowd.org/the-new-badg...
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…
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The push for badger vaccination...what's behind it? thebadgercrowd.org/vacuous-vacc...
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…
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The 2025 ‘Torgerson’ scientific paper thebadgercrowd.org/the-new-torg...
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…
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