On Friday 26th September, Defra changed the “Bovine TB strategy review update” but simply made things worse by adding another layer of confusion. An error was reported as “a revision to a line of code”. In the document itself, the Continue reading Godfray Review 2025: Defra Revision? Correction? Or just further scientific howlers?→| The Badger Crowd – standing up for badgers
The badger cull strategy, based on the results of the 1998 – 2005 Randomised Badger Control Trial (RBCT), put the wheels in motion for the widespread killing of badgers that has occurred over the last decade. Pushed by Defra and the NFU as the best way to control Bovine TB – a disease now widely […]| Protect the Wild
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…| The Badger Crowd - standing up for badgers
Professor Paul Torgerson The peer-reviewer of the new scientific paper, Torgerson et al 2025, published on June 11th is the Director of Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland (BIOSS). The paper is…| The Badger Crowd - standing up for badgers
Following on from our blog of September 23rd 2024, that reported on the uncertainties around the RBCT analyses, we are pleased to provide an important update. As Jane Dalton writes in The Independe…| The Badger Crowd - standing up for badgers
Bovine TB failings in Oxfordshire and beyond in 2023 The “Year End Descriptive Epidemiology Reports” for Bovine TB control were published by APHA online on 24th October for the Edge Area coun…| The Badger Crowd - standing up for badgers
If it had been known last Christmas that a Labour government would be in power by July of this year, an imminent end of the cull would have been anticipated. With a public inquiry set up into how t…| The Badger Crowd - standing up for badgers
Who is really in charge of Bovine TB control at Defra? It’s very strange. The brand new Labour Government’s manifesto says that badger culls are ‘ineffective’, yet they will …| The Badger Crowd - standing up for badgers
The ‘targeted’ badger culling proposals of the last Government are rejected by the new Labour Government but the ‘ineffective’ badger culls still continue, pending a further Review. Lawyers acting …| The Badger Crowd - standing up for badgers
On Thursday 18th July, as Keir Starmer visited Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, the Oxfordshire Badger Group (OBG) presented a petition, with over 50,000 signatures to Oxford University School …| The Badger Crowd - standing up for badgers
This website has been reporting on the legal challenges to the badger culling policy and licences, and the science that has supposedly supported it since 2019. Over that time, there have been many …| The Badger Crowd - standing up for badgers
