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The Badger Cull 2024 - Our campaign

Over 50,000 Petition Oxford Scientists To Accept That Their Badger Control Study (RBCT) Was Flawed

Thu 18 Jul 2024

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.

Wed 12 Jun 2024

It's Badger Cull Action Week - Please support our petition

"Oxford University’s Scientists Must Speak Out Against Badger Extermination"

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Over 50,000 people have signed our petition !

"Oxford University's Scientists Must Speak Out Against Badger Extermination"

(as at 19th July 2024)

We presented our petition and an Open Letter Oxford University Scientists at Department of biology on 18th July.

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WE WON'T STOP UNTIL CULLING ENDS AND WE KNOW THAT BADGERS ARE SAFE

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Badger Culling DOES NOT help control bovine TB

An important new scientific paper casts doubt on the findings of Oxford's Randomised Badger Culling Trial (RBCT).

The paper "Absence of effects of widespread badger culling on tuberculosis in cattle" by Torgerson et al is a comprehensive re-analysis of the original RBCT data. It concludes that "there was insufficient evidence to conclude RBCT proactive badger culling affected bTB breakdown incidence".

We welcome this publication which supports more recent findings that the intensive culling of badgers since 2013 is not associated with disease reduction.

We renew our call for the Oxford Scientists behind the RBCT to speak up and advise the government to end the badger cull immediately.

Their claim that the RBCT "provides a strong evidence base….with appropriate detailed statistical or other quantitative analysis" is no longer defensible.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

Oxford University work provides the scientific basis of the governments badger cull policy. Their work has been used to justify killing over 230,000 badgers. Culling started in Oxford. They now must speak out against continuing the cull.

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