The Badger Crowd
@badgercrowd.bsky.social
Standing up for badgers
https://thebadgercrowd.org/
https://thebadgercrowd.org/
"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...
Follow-up to the recent Bovine TB strategy review update by the Godfray panel, new preprint;
figshare.com/articles/dat...
September 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
"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...
Follow-up to the recent Bovine TB strategy review update by the Godfray panel, new preprint;
figshare.com/articles/dat...
June 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Find out more about the new scientific paper published today on analysis and results of the Randomised Badger Culling Trials:
thebadgercrowd.org/badger-cull-...
thebadgercrowd.org/badger-cull-...
June 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Find out more about the new scientific paper published today on analysis and results of the Randomised Badger Culling Trials:
thebadgercrowd.org/badger-cull-...
thebadgercrowd.org/badger-cull-...
RBCT: New evaluation.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
June 11, 2025 at 4:59 AM
RBCT: New evaluation.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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...
thebadgercrowd.org/activism-and...
May 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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...
thebadgercrowd.org/activism-and...
Is Test Vaccinate Remove (TVR) the new corrupted thinking?
New blog: thebadgercrowd.org/are-we-headi...
New blog: thebadgercrowd.org/are-we-headi...
April 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Is Test Vaccinate Remove (TVR) the new corrupted thinking?
New blog: thebadgercrowd.org/are-we-headi...
New blog: thebadgercrowd.org/are-we-headi...
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
Government to review the last six years of bTB science for its ‘refreshed’ bovine TB strategy
thebadgercrowd.org/how-serious-...
#badgermonday
February 17, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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
Government to review the last six years of bTB science for its ‘refreshed’ bovine TB strategy
thebadgercrowd.org/how-serious-...
#badgermonday
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.
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#badgermonday
2024 has been a remarkable year, where it seems that better awareness of the bovine TB scandal is emerging.
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#badgermonday
December 23, 2024 at 10:25 AM
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.
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#badgermonday
2024 has been a remarkable year, where it seems that better awareness of the bovine TB scandal is emerging.
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#badgermonday
December 9, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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.
February 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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.
Murky dealings in England & NI, and why ineffective badger culling continues
https://thebadgercrowd.org/blog
#badgermonday
https://thebadgercrowd.org/blog
#badgermonday
February 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Murky dealings in England & NI, and why ineffective badger culling continues
https://thebadgercrowd.org/blog
#badgermonday
https://thebadgercrowd.org/blog
#badgermonday
"Yet More Cumbria Badger Killings"
Still not being admitted publicly........hugely disappointing from Labour. Who's in charge?
#BadgerMonday
https://thebadgercrowd.org/cumbria-killings
Still not being admitted publicly........hugely disappointing from Labour. Who's in charge?
#BadgerMonday
https://thebadgercrowd.org/cumbria-killings
February 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
"Yet More Cumbria Badger Killings"
Still not being admitted publicly........hugely disappointing from Labour. Who's in charge?
#BadgerMonday
https://thebadgercrowd.org/cumbria-killings
Still not being admitted publicly........hugely disappointing from Labour. Who's in charge?
#BadgerMonday
https://thebadgercrowd.org/cumbria-killings
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
February 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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
"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...
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...
February 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
"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...
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...
Great to see Anna Dale at Westminster to help #endthecull
February 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Great to see Anna Dale at Westminster to help #endthecull
Disgraceful news of new cull area in Cumbria. Labour betrayal #endthecull
February 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Disgraceful news of new cull area in Cumbria. Labour betrayal #endthecull
Westminster message. The new strategy proposals avoid the real issues. Cattle testing needs a revolution.
February 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Westminster message. The new strategy proposals avoid the real issues. Cattle testing needs a revolution.
"The Labour Government plans a new Bovine TB Eradication Strategy"
Updated home page following the Labour announcement: https://thebadgercrowd.org/
Spoiler: it's going to mean a lot more culling........
#badgermonday
Updated home page following the Labour announcement: https://thebadgercrowd.org/
Spoiler: it's going to mean a lot more culling........
#badgermonday
February 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"The Labour Government plans a new Bovine TB Eradication Strategy"
Updated home page following the Labour announcement: https://thebadgercrowd.org/
Spoiler: it's going to mean a lot more culling........
#badgermonday
Updated home page following the Labour announcement: https://thebadgercrowd.org/
Spoiler: it's going to mean a lot more culling........
#badgermonday
March of the badgers around Defra, Marsham Street right now.
Stop the ineffective badger culls today.
Stop the ineffective badger culls today.
February 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
March of the badgers around Defra, Marsham Street right now.
Stop the ineffective badger culls today.
Stop the ineffective badger culls today.
Police concerned
February 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Police concerned
Badger heroes Mary and Rob, outside Defra Marsham Street right now. @ProtectTheWild_ @euro_badger
February 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Badger heroes Mary and Rob, outside Defra Marsham Street right now. @ProtectTheWild_ @euro_badger
"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: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-67160-0
Blog:...
Blog:...
February 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
"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: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-67160-0
Blog:...
Blog:...
Published 15th July, new peer-rev paper in Scientific Reports invalidates scientific basis for badger culling:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-67160-0
11 years of killing & 230K badgers dead for uncertain benefit, & no measurable benefit has been the...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-67160-0
11 years of killing & 230K badgers dead for uncertain benefit, & no measurable benefit has been the...
February 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Published 15th July, new peer-rev paper in Scientific Reports invalidates scientific basis for badger culling:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-67160-0
11 years of killing & 230K badgers dead for uncertain benefit, & no measurable benefit has been the...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-67160-0
11 years of killing & 230K badgers dead for uncertain benefit, & no measurable benefit has been the...
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...
Blog:https://thebadgercrowd.org/labour-and-badger-culling
Despite new peer-reviewed science that shows that badger culling was never going to...
February 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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...
Blog:https://thebadgercrowd.org/labour-and-badger-culling
Despite new peer-reviewed science that shows that badger culling was never going to...
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:...
Blog:...
February 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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:...
Blog:...