Good and Bad News About the Badger Cull (mostly bad)
The Badger Cull has been in the news. Since culling started in 2013, we've become hardened to the remorseless growth of the cull zones; the horrific annual mortality figures and DEFRA's refusal to accept the evidence that culling is not effective in controlling bTB. The new Labour Government's U turn on promises to end culling if they came into power was a massive blow to our hopes (and demolished their environmental credentials).
The news is bitter sweet and hits hard. The badger cull is a national scandal. We must continue to hold the, politicians and scientists behind the Cull to account. Farmers and badgers are suffering a great disservice due to the reliance on flawed science and hearsay.
An Ancient Bluebell Wood Bereft of Badgers - A 'quiet tragedy'
Professor Paul Torgerson's visit to Oxford on 18th Nov
Report on Professor Paul Torgerson's visit to Oxford on 18th Nov for RBCT scientific seminar and Oxfordshire Badger Group evening meeting.
Oxford University's Statistics - Lies and Damned Lies
We protest as Professor Cristl Donnelly tries to defend her flawed research and refuses to speak out against culling badgers
Over 50,000 Petition Oxford Scientists To Accept That Their Badger Control Study (RBCT) Was Flawed
Important new research paper demolishes Oxford's research findings. Will they accept that culling badgers has NO valid scientific basis?
Petition UPDATE: A General Election has been called but the government’s badger killing machine grinds on.
It's Badger Cull Action Week - Please support our petition
"Oxford University’s Scientists Must Speak Out Against Badger Extermination"
Please visit our petition update page for cull news and more information how you can help.
Badger cull consultation announced
The long awaited, and much feared consultation on the next phase of government badger Tb control policy is now underway. It opened on 14th March and ends 22nd April.
t states a proposal:
- 'to retain badger culling as an option in targeted parts of the high-risk and edge areas, where there are high levels of infection in cattle, and where evidence suggests badgers are part of the problem in the spread of disease to these herds'. Basically to retain culling as an option based on epidemiological assessments.
- Culling would continue in these targeted areas until the disease situation has been deemed to have improved, following an annual review by the UK’s Chief Veterinary Officer. At this point, badger vaccination would be used to ensure the results achieved through culling are maintained
This has been reported in the press as a 'U turn on plans to phase out culling'
We will be collaborating with the Badger Trust and the Oxfordshire Badger Coalition in drafting OBG's response to this. W'll also continue to our efforts to persuade Oxford University's
scientists to speak out about the misuse of their research.
We'll share details with you as they become available.
For now, the Badger Trust is putting out information
1) Latest consultation shows UK government remains fixated on killing badgers to end bTB in cattle (14th March)
2) No proof that culling badgers reduces bovine TB in cattle by over 50% (15th March)
Thank you for supporting and championing our badgers !
Oxfordshire Badger Group responds to the Badger Trust Report on tackling Bovine TB
Could this be the year the badger cull ends?
Halloween Horrors:Prof. Rosie Woodroffe & the War on Badgers
A lecture to the Tinbergen Society, Merton College Oxford, on 31 October 2023
