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"There is urgent need to review the way in which modelling has been used to make vital decisions of huge cost and consequence."
A longer, but important read:
https://thebadgercrowd.org/scientists-disease-and-communicating-uncertainty
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February 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Update on last week's Appeal Hearing for legal challenges to aspects of the badger cull here:
https://thebadgercrowd.org/blog
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February 12, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Yet institutional forces struggle to grapple with poor science, the embarrassment of failing policy and the need for decisive steps to overcome decades of oversight, dogma and vested interest. 2/2
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December 23, 2024 at 10:25 AM
Doubts over badger culling in Republic of Ireland as Irish Times exposes cull licence chaos. http://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/are-we-culling-badgers-needlessly-1.2825443
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Are we culling badgers needlessly?
Conservationists are concerned about how the badger cull ...
www.irishtimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
"Acceptance and normalisation of a policy that has no stop button, has always been the problem with supplementary culling, with no capacity to ‘adapt and learn’ of any direct value of badger culling."
https://thebadgercrowd.org/blog
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February 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
"The current case challenges the continuing and long-term neglect of potential impacts (of the badger cull) on a wide range of habitats and species."
Read more about the current appeal on the Ecological Impacts (NERC 2006) Judicial Review: https://thebadgercrowd.org/blog
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February 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Protest the Badger Cull 10 Years On
Here: https://thebadgercrowd.org/blog
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February 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Countryfiles @tomheapmedia pushes badger culling in Wales where gamma testing's reducing new herd breakdowns (14%).No mention? #badgermonday
February 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
The public has this year become more literate about disease control. It is time for better scrutiny of the UK badger culling strategy.
https://theecologist.org/2021/jan/18/modelling-killed-badgers
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Modelling killed the badgers
The public has this year become more literate about disea...
theecologist.org
February 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Stop the cull DEFRA UK, PM @keir--starmer.bsky.social
November 18, 2024 at 12:31 PM
The badger killers are all gone...
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February 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"...preliminary studies suggest that cattle farmers are only willing to undertake essential bTB controls thoroughly, once badgers have been killed" https://theecologist.org/2019/nov/05/badger-meddling
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Badger meddling
Badger culling and mass badger vaccination are unsafe and...
theecologist.org
February 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
"Analysis of the impact of badger culling on bovine tuberculosis in cattle in the high-risk area of England, 2009–2020", concludes that badger culling has had no measurable benefit in bTB disease reduction.
Read it & Defra's reaction: https://thebadgercrowd.org/blog
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February 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Expect an update on this soon......
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February 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Government farm vet crisis - Whistleblower vet awarded £1.25m settlement and apology from DAERA
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-61212237
Whistleblower vet awarded £1.25m settlement and apology f...
Dr Tamara Bronckaers won a case against Daera last year r...
www.bbc.co.uk
February 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Eurobadger visit to Wales. Country with 14% dip in new herd bTB incidence without badger culling. #badgermonday
February 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
France approves 2017 badger slaughter despite survey showing 77% public against & only 18% in favour #badgermonday...
February 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
As 2019 culls gear up, we continue to wait for the Appeal Hearing Supp Cull and Habitat Regulations outcomes. Read about the legal challenges to the badger cull & more on our web pages: https://thebadgercrowd.org/
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February 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Application for permission to appeal made to Supreme Court on Supplementary Badger Culling case - read more on our website.
https://thebadgercrowd.org/blog
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February 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
End the badger cull and adopt other approaches to bTB control:
thebadgercrowd.org/important-ne...
Please sign this important petition
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Important New Parliamentary Petition
A new parliamentary petition has been launched by Protect the Wild. It states: The Government’s TB Eradication Strategy allows the continued killing of badgers, a protected species, until the end o…
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December 9, 2024 at 12:43 PM