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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Playing Possum. Surely Ireland is not serious about a Test Vaccinate Remove policy for badgers? thebadgercrowd.org/playing-possum

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

"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; figshare.com/articles/dat...

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Important review of new RBCT analysis: publons.com/wos-op/revie...

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Find out more about the new scientific paper published today on analysis and results of the Randomised Badger Culling Trials: thebadgercrowd.org/badger-cull-...

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

RBCT: New evaluation. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

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” thebadgercrowd.org/activism-and...

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Is Test Vaccinate Remove (TVR) the new corrupted thinking? New blog: thebadgercrowd.org/are-we-headi...

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Badger cull review details announced: Government to review the last six years of bTB science for its ‘refreshed’ bovine TB strategy thebadgercrowd.org/how-serious-... #badgermonday

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Bovine TB roundup 2024: thebadgercrowd.org/bovine-tb-ro... 2024 has been a remarkable year, where it seems that better awareness of the bovine TB scandal is emerging. 1/2 #badgermonday

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Badger culling is just not supported by the science: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #badgermonday

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Gloucs bTB faltering since 2020. Slow progress from annual testing since 2010 now hits limit of stat. testing ability to find hidden reservoir, just as in Ro Ireland.

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

Murky dealings in England & NI, and why ineffective badger culling continues thebadgercrowd.org/blog #badgermonday

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

"Yet More Cumbria Badger Killings" Still not being admitted publicly........hugely disappointing from Labour. Who's in charge? #BadgerMonday thebadgercrowd.org/cumbria-killings

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

Chris Packham shares the guilt of failure to stop the culls, shaming the conservation world for inadequate response and the new Gvt. for feeble start. #endthecull

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

"Defra outlines a refreshed bovine TB control badger strategy" The ‘targeted’ badger culling proposals of the last Government are rejected by the new Labour Government but the ‘ineffective’ badger culls still continue, pending a further...

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

Great to see Anna Dale at Westminster to help #endthecull

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

Disgraceful news of new cull area in Cumbria. Labour betrayal #endthecull

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

Westminster message. The new strategy proposals avoid the real issues. Cattle testing needs a revolution.

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

"The Labour Government plans a new Bovine TB Eradication Strategy" Updated home page following the Labour announcement: thebadgercrowd.org Spoiler: it's going to mean a lot more culling........ #badgermonday

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

March of the badgers around Defra, Marsham Street right now. Stop the ineffective badger culls today.

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

Badger heroes Mary and Rob, outside Defra Marsham Street right now. @ProtectTheWild_ @euro_badger

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 29/07/2024

"Absence of effects of widespread badger culling on tuberculosis in cattle", published 15th July in Nature Portfolio's Scientific Reports. Clearly undermines rationale for badger culling. Here: www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-… Blog:...

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

Published 15th July, new peer-rev paper in Scientific Reports invalidates scientific basis for badger culling: www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-… 11 years of killing & 230K badgers dead for uncertain benefit, & no measurable benefit has been the...

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 22/07/2024

Labour said in their election manifesto that badger culling was 'ineffective'. So why are going to keep culling until 2026? Blog:https://thebadgercrowd.org/labour-and-badger-culling Despite new peer-reviewed science that shows that badger culling was never going to...

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 22/07/2024

Last Thursday, Oxfordshire Badger Group presented a petition, with over 50,000 signatures to Oxford University School of Biology in central Oxford. They want the University to speak out against the badger culls. Blog:...

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 22/07/2024

New peer-reviewed paper in Scientific Reports: "Fresh appraisal shows that there was insufficient evidence to conclude RBCT proactive badger culling affected bTB breakdown incidence." www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-… Blog:...

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 20/07/2024

Oxford – we have a problem…………… 50,000 people think so thebadgercrowd.org/oxford-we-have-a… Read the new paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-…

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 19/07/2024

New scientific paper in Scientific Reports that shows 'Absence of effects of widespread badger culling on tuberculosis in cattle' has Altmetric score in top 1% of all papers published in any journal in the last 6 weeks & it has only been out for 4...

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 19/07/2024

New paper in Scientific Reports: Absence of effects of widespread badger culling on tuberculosis in cattle. www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-… Blog: thebadgercrowd.org/new-scientific-p… Badger culling...

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 16/07/2024

New scientific paper shows that badger cull was never going to work Blog: thebadgercrowd.org/new-scientific-p… www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-… "The results of the present report are consistent with...

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

Last week Labour called badger culling 'ineffective' (& therefore unlawful under the Protection of Badgers Act 1992 ). A new government must drop the incoherent targeted cull policy consultation & focus on cattle based...

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

Sunak claims Conservatives are the “only party at this election” committed to maintaining the cull. The only only party prepared to consistently misinterpret the science & misinform to justify it perhaps? Time to #stopthecull thebadgercrowd.org/blog #badgermonday

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

Will the election bring a change on badger cull policy? thebadgercrowd.org

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

New legal action underway: "The consultation options were narrow and miscast, appearing to be aimed at quickly pushing though a single, pre-planned approach to keep on killing badgers." Read more: thebadgercrowd.org/blog #badgermonday

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 19/05/2024

Government badger cull consultation - new legal action underway. New blog: thebadgercrowd.org/government-badge…

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 16/05/2024

Pre-action letter out to challenge the @DefraGovUK Badger Cull consultation. Misleading, lacking information and with inadequate regard to ecological impact and economic considerations.

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 13/05/2024

Today is your last chance to comment on Defra's badger cull consultation here: consult.defra.gov.uk/bovine-tb/bovi… If you don't want badger culling to be at discretion of the CVO, potentially everywhere and for ever, please read blog &...

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

URGENT BADGER CULL CONSULTATION NEWS ACT TODAY – this week is vital to stop the senseless killing and government misinformation. New blog: thebadgercrowd.org/blog #badgermonday

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 30/03/2024

Interviewed by Farmers Guardian, Steve Reed Labour Defra shadow states government have walked away from bTB issue since 2018. Quotes Dartmoor farmer first hand on inadequate cattle testing and biosecurity and inspections and the need to double down on these hard. 1/2

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

Unbelievably, Defra say there's no need to be able to replicate APHA's peculiar new scientific paper to justify enfless badger culling. Really? No wonder there's a reproducibility crisis in science.

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

New legal letters out yesterday regarding the confused and dangerous 'badger cull forever' gvt. Consultation. First to Defra - the science is misdescribed & eco impacts again overlooked. Second to goverment legal dept - who want to hide how 'Birch' statistics were cooked up. 1/2

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

Veterinary Record exposes yet more government bovine TB failings Blog: thebadgercrowd.org/veterinary-recor…

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

Legal letter out to Defra due to non supply APHA 'Birch' statistical code - to check Steve Barclay's future badger bloodbath U-turn plans. Why hiding? Badger Crowd STANDING STRONG FOR BADGERS @ProtectTheWild_ @domdyer70 @OxonBadger @VoicesBadgers @BadgerTrust @WildJustice_org

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

New badger cull U-turn signals the end of the Badger Protection Act in England New blog: thebadgercrowd.org/new-badger-cull-…

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

The DEFRA Bovine TB Partnership: Shambles or Scandal? Dick Sibley removed from the Governments BTB Partnership New blog: thebadgercrowd.org/the-defra-bovine…

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The Badger Crowd @badgercrowd.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

Key badger scientist reviews recent badger culling science: thebadgercrowd.org/key-badger-scien… "....According to those statistics, killing badgers during the RBCT made no difference to the herd breakdowns...." #badgermonday

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