Researchers want increased monitoring of the vaccination's impact on the disease and a review of the evidence.

This paper evaluates the computational and epidemiological robustness of the historical Randomised Badger Culling Trial (RBCT), the foundational empirical experiment guiding zoonotic tuberculosis (Myc...

Follow up study confirms no sign of badger culls having an effect on cattle TB after 8 years in the LRA, as with findings from the HRA and Edge areas. In 2023, seven independent experts compiled a rev...

Stormont has backed wildlife intervention In April, Farmers Weekly reported (here), that Stormont (the Northern Ireland Assembly or government) has backed urgent action to address the lack of progress...

Failure to co-design bTB control strategy is coming to a head. Time to ring the alarm bells? At the end of March, Defra Minister Angela Eagle and some of her bovine TB team met with a handful of repre...

The Westminster Hall debate on badger culling last October, attended by Defra Minister Angela Eagle, gave the impression that under a Labour administration, badger culling was finally going to give wa...

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Annual review of science of bovine TB and badgers, looking at new scientific publications, parliamentary debates, government reviews

Annual review of science of bovine TB and badgers, looking at new scientific publications, parliamentary debates, government reviews

The ‘perturbation effect hypothesis’ is the reported ‘negative’ effect of reactive and proactive badger culling, described in the Donnelly et al (2006) paper “Positive and negative effects of wides…

Bovine tuberculosis; badgers finally in the clear In the May 2023 issue of British Wildlife, I described the ‘weakened link’ between badgers and bovine TB (bTB) infection in cattle. Since that…

In late November 2025 APHA published online their annual report on bTB for last year: “Bovine tuberculosis in England in 2024 Epidemiological analysis of the 2024 surveillance data and historical t…

A Cumbria badger bloodbath At the Westminster Hall Debate on the 13th October, Angela Eagle the Defra Minister of State confirmed that the badger cull would come to an end in February 2026 in all b…

An attempt by Natural England to hike campaigners’ legal costs to challenge badger culling licences has been blocked by the […]

The Westminster Hall debate of the Protect the Wild petition, held on 13th October, was a significant improvement on previous badger cull debates.  The majority of voices spoke earnestly about a wi…

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…

Panel Chair: Professor Sir Charles Godfray The long-awaited ‘Godfray’ report, a review of scientific evidence since 2018 concerning bovine TB in cattle, was published on 4th September. …

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 “…

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…

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…

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 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…

Study, published in Royal Society Open Science, raises questions about the 2006 Randomised Badger Culling Trial (RBCT), which the previous UK Government had use

A passionate campaigner from Welwyn has received a national award for her dedication and commitment to fighting for the protection of badgers.

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

‘Justification for lethal control to date appears to have been based on basic statistical oversight,’ says study

‘Justification for lethal control to date appears to have been based on basic statistical oversight,’ says study

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 …

Exclusive: Supplementary culls set to begin in nine areas from Sunday and 10 areas from September

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.

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.

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.

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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…

Reporting on badger cull science & legal challenges