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 “to help identify infected cattle which may not Continue reading Cattle testing with Gamma interferon→| The Badger Crowd – standing up for badgers
The world watches and wonders…….. The interest and outrage generated by the English badger culls over the last thirteen years is huge and continues to grow. But as time has gone on, the…| The Badger Crowd - standing up for badgers
The parliamentary summer recess has begun. There can be no more Parliamentary Questions until the recall in September. Which is more than a shame, because there are questions that still need to be answered about the badger cull and bovine Continue reading Summer news roundup→| The Badger Crowd – standing up for badgers
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…| The Badger Crowd - standing up for badgers
A new article in Vet Times reports on the Torgerson et al (2025) paper published in Royal Society Open Science last month, that has prompted calls to stop all badger culling immediately. The badger…| The Badger Crowd - standing up for badgers
In case you missed it, here is the Jane Dalton story from The Independent, Wednesday 11th June 2025: A prominent ecologist says an independent assessment of the latest study on badger culling is a “bombshell” takedown of the government’s evidence Continue reading Badger Bombshell!→| The Badger Crowd – standing up for badgers
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 as saying: “The Green Party has long Continue reading Green Party continues to call for end to badger culling→| The Badger Crowd – standing up for badgers
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 bov…| 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
Brian May: The Badgers, the Farmers, and Me’ is a documentary that was aired on BBC2 at 9.00pm on Friday 23 August, and is now available on the BBC iplayer. Filmed over 4 years, the programme chart…| The Badger Crowd - standing up for badgers
Things are starting to become slightly clearer as we near the point of discovery over the future of badger culling in England and beyond. Consultees to the online Defra Consultation questionnaire …| The Badger Crowd - standing up for badgers
