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
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 in the newly published ‘Godfray’ report? A letter Continue reading 2038 Bovine TB targets on the scrap heap, with details of failed policy increasingly exposed→| 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
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
