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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 25d

"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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EuroBadger @eurobadger.bsky.social · Jul 12

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…

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · Jun 11

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

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Tom Langton @tomlangton.bsky.social · Jun 11

Randomised Badger Culling Trials: new evaluation
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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EuroBadger @eurobadger.bsky.social · Jun 3

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

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EuroBadger @eurobadger.bsky.social · Feb 12

‪Euro_badger posts (2016-2025) from Twitter/X are being transferred over to Bluesky by @blueark.app. 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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EuroBadger @eurobadger.bsky.social · Feb 12

https://www.fwi.co.uk/livestock/health-welfare/livestock-diseases/bovine-tb/defra-set-to-award-nfu-1-4m-for-badger-vaccination-pilot

Defra set to award NFU £1.4m for badger vaccination pilot...

Defra is set to allocate the NFU a £1.4m contract for a t...

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EuroBadger @eurobadger.bsky.social · Feb 12

In 3 years time you will re-discover that the DPP is unreliable, there is not enough clarity due to uncontrlled variables, and you need another £10 Mn and 5 years more to have another go.......

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · Jan 9

Earlier today outside Downing Street. Betty Badger braved the cold to stand up for Badgers. Hero!

Sign the govt petition to end the Badger cull today: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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EuroBadger @eurobadger.bsky.social · Feb 12

Bovine TB end of year roundup. https://thebadgercrowd.org/blog

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · Dec 20

Bovine TB roundup 2024

Everything changes but stays the same?

New blog: thebadgercrowd.org/bovine-tb-ro...

Bovine TB roundup 2024

Everything changes but stays the same? 2024 has been a remarkable year, where it seems that better awareness of the bovine TB scandal is emerging. Yet institutional forces struggle to grapple with …

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Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social · Dec 9

According to the Express, magpies are "hooligans" & "instinctive killers" best controlled by using pesticides to kill their insect prey. Against stiff competition, possibly the worst piece of journalism I've seen. www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1984...

Warning issued to anyone with magpies in their garden

Magpies can cause damage to gardens, particularly in the breeding season.

www.express.co.uk

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EuroBadger @eurobadger.bsky.social · Feb 12

NI cattle TB is driven by larger herds and dairy intensification.
https://www.irishnews.com/news/northern-ireland/chief-vets-report-links-herd-size-and-intensification-to-bovine-tb-increase-UNGHDDQYQZH6HP2LUVV4CSFS5E/

Chief vet’s report links herd size and intensification to...

Last year more than 20,000 cattle were culled and more £3...

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Tom Langton @tomlangton.bsky.social · Dec 3

A new parliamentary petition now calls for an immediate end to the badger cull and the implementation of cattle focused measures to control bTB. 🧪🌍
Please sign:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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Petition: End the Badger cull and adopt other approaches to bovine TB control

The Government’s TB Eradication Strategy allows the continued killing of badgers, a protected species, until the end of this Parliament, despite the Labour manifesto calling the cull “ineffective.” W...

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Tom Langton @tomlangton.bsky.social · Dec 3

A rebuttal by Mills et al: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
has itself been rebutted in this pre-print: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧪🌍

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Tom Langton @tomlangton.bsky.social · Dec 3

Recently published re-analysis of the Randomised Badger Culling Trials show that there was insufficient evidence to conclude that badger culling affected bTB breakdown incidence:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · Nov 29

Important new parliamentary petition to end the badger cull and adopt other approaches to bovine TB control;
Sign here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Blog here: thebadgercrowd.org/important-ne...

Petition: End the Badger cull and adopt other approaches to bovine TB control

The Government’s TB Eradication Strategy allows the continued killing of badgers, a protected species, until the end of this Parliament, despite the Labour manifesto calling the cull “ineffective.” W...

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · Nov 27

Trail hunting is a sham.

It’s time for a ban on trail hunting and to end this nonsense for good.

REPOST if you agree!

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EuroBadger @eurobadger.bsky.social · Nov 17

Hi Ethan, could you add us to the Ecology & Conservation feed please? Many thanks.

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · Nov 14

Catch up with news about the ineffective badger culls at: thebadgercrowd.org

The Badger Crowd - standing up for badgers

Reporting on badger cull science & legal challenges

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · Nov 14

There should be a permanent hunting ban on MOD land. Follow us if you agree!

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EuroBadger @eurobadger.bsky.social · Feb 12

Remember, never ever ever quote the 94% lie. It is bigger than the 56% lie...
https://thebadgercrowd.org/more-or-less-truth-life-and-56

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EuroBadger @eurobadger.bsky.social · Nov 6

APHA’s ‘Edge of Disaster’ Area

Bovine TB failings in Oxfordshire and beyond in 2023

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APHA’s ‘Edge of Disaster’ Area

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…

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EuroBadger @eurobadger.bsky.social · Nov 6

APHA’s Edge Area Bovine TB Epidemiology Reports for 2023: How is it going?

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APHA’s Edge Area Bovine TB Epidemiology Reports for 2023

How’s it going? The quotes in the table below are taken from the APHA county epidemiology reports recently released. Progress is clearly not on target. As seen in Oxfordshire (see here), bTB …

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EuroBadger @eurobadger.bsky.social · Feb 12

BTB in Gloucs, responding to annual testing in 2010. Levels off in 2020 as 3rd year of badger culling comes into force = no influence whatsoever. It's a fail and suggests herd reservoir maintains the epidemic.