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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…

Is Diddly Squat Farm seeing the light on bovine TB testing and spread?

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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…

The Cornwall badger vaccination project – why the secrecy and confusion?
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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…

The push for badger vaccination...what's behind it?

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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…

The 2025 ‘Torgerson’ scientific paper

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Government say they will look at newly published evidence on statistical flaws in Randomised Badger Culling Trial in their review of bTB science
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Campaigner from Welwyn wins national award for fighting to protect badgers A passionate campaigner from Welwyn has received a national award for her dedication and commitment to fighting for the protection of badgers.

Well deserved award for Herts Badger group member Mary Barton.
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Important review of new RBCT analysis:

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BREAKING: The science behind the badger cull just collapsed Yet more scientific evidence emerges that discredits the government's scandalous badger killing policy

Yet more scientific evidence emerges that discredits the government's scandalous badger killing policy

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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

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

RBCT: new appraisal......
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Find out more about the new scientific paper published today on analysis and results of the Randomised Badger Culling Trials:
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Green Party continues to call for end to badger culling 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 …

Green Party continues to call for end to badger culling

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Randomised Badger Culling Trials: new evaluation
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RBCT: New evaluation.
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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

Badger cull expansion given go-ahead by officials – against advice of own science chief
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Opposition TDs take issue with Government's badger-culling programme Pádraic Fogarty, ecologist and TJ Maher, Chair of the IFA's Animal Health Committee, debate the need to cull wild badgers as part of efforts to prevent the spread of TB in cattle.

Listen back to the brief debate this week between myself and the IFA on the failure of the livestock industry to get a grip on ballooning levels of TB

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‘It’s the next worst thing to losing a family member’: The toll of Ireland’s bovine TB crisis As TB numbers continue to rise across Irish farms, The Journal Investigates speaks to those in the farming community carrying the huge financial and emotional loss.

Breakdowns return after six years. Normal for the failed testing regime being used. These farmers should be told the truth.
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Over 80% of badgers culled in government TB programme found to be free from the disease More than 8,000 badgers destroyed by DAFM in a nation-wide crackdown to eradicate bovine tuberculosis were found to be infection free following post-mortems.

Dopey DAFM snaring and shooting healthy and vaccinated badgers. No wonder the EU are after them. www.thejournal.ie/badger-culli...

Activism and the Scientist: it is surely sensible that “scientists have the right and responsibility to engage in activism” because “their expertise and ethical responsibility position them well to change policy”
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Is Test Vaccinate Remove (TVR) the new corrupted thinking?

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YouTube video by Protect the Wild Govt continues to defend sham Badger cull “review”

Govt continues to defend sham Badger cull “review”

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How on earth did badgers get the TB blame? Bovine TB has been misunderstood for 50 years. All because new interpretations by MAFF in 1980 sent industry and scientists in the wrong direction. A new short report here  now tells the story of h…

How on earth did badgers ger the bovine TB blame?

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The Badger Crowd - standing up for badgers Reporting on badger cull science & legal challenges

URGENT Total badger cull and TB testing failure in the Low Risk Area of England - LRA heading out of control due to predictable APHA failures. Zeichner myst act immediately.

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‘Science and Politics’ by Ian Boyd Hiding in plain sight with the Oxford brigade Prof. Sir Ian Boyd has a book out: ‘Science and Politics’ (politybooks.com, around £20). In it, he devotes several pages to describing the events that …

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Badger cull review details announced:

Government to review the last six years of bTB science for its ‘refreshed’ bovine TB strategy

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The Badger Crowd - standing up for badgers Reporting on badger cull science & legal challenges

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Labour Government & badger culling 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 bo…

Government to review the last six years of bTB science for its ‘refreshed’ bovine TB strategy.

How objective will the new review be?

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Defra set to award NFU £1.4m for badger vaccination pilot - Farmers Weekly Defra is set to allocate the NFU a £1.4m contract for a three-year badger vaccination and research project in Cornwall. The pilot, which is due to begin

Defra to fritter funds on 3-year can-kick. www.fwi.co.uk/livestock/he...

DAERA establishes new Tuberculosis Partnership Steering Group Northern Ireland’s Chief Veterinary Officer (CVO) Mr Brian Dooher has met with the new TB Partnership Steering Group for the first time to explore proposals to eradicate bovine Tuberculosis (bTB).

DAERA bTB partnership group holds first meeting. www.daera-ni.gov.uk/news/daera-e...