@BadgerCrowd

The Badger Crowd unites groups, individuals and organisations to challenge unlawful badger culling.

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Joined June 2018
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Defra set up hopeless story to hide further strategy delay, due to legal problems over wish to keep culling, and collapse of evidence promoted by Godfray review update. BBC News - Almost 250,000 badgers were culled: was it worth it? - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62e…

Almost 250,000 badgers were culled: was it worth it?

Opponents say it was a 'travesty'. Supporters say it was well worth it. So what is the evidence?

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Badger culling set to end in Cumbria’s Area 73 - Farmers Weekly share.google/j7yVt0l5MIHhGkJ…

Badger culling set to end in Cumbria’s Area 73 - Farmers Weekly

Badger culling in Cumbria’s Area 73 is set to end after two years of operations, with no licence confirmed for 2026 and vaccination now under

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Playing Possum - Ireland set on disasterous direction with bovine TB control. share.google/rKc5YL2ycXPGyr3…

Playing Possum

Surely Ireland is not serious about a Test Vaccinate Remove policy for badgers? It is difficult to believe, but the vets of Dublin and Belfast now appear to be using far-fetched claims from New Zea…

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Playing Possum - Ireland set on disasterous direction with bovine TB control. share.google/rKc5YL2ycXPGyr3…

Playing Possum

Surely Ireland is not serious about a Test Vaccinate Remove policy for badgers? It is difficult to believe, but the vets of Dublin and Belfast now appear to be using far-fetched claims from New Zea…

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2025 Year round up. Blog - The Badger Crowd - standing up for badgers share.google/IcMtslHZDsEsUzO…

The Badger Crowd - standing up for badgers

Reporting on badger cull science & legal challenges

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Euro_badger@euro_badger23 Dec 2025
Strategy will pour £25 Mn ++ into an untested method of BTB control in cattle. While failing cattle testing remain neglected in a broken policy. Defra’s badger TB vaccination ‘too limited to work’ - Farmers Weekly share.google/Ahc4G1vpEMCyOCb…

Defra’s badger TB vaccination ‘too limited to work’ - Farmers Weekly

Defra has allocated £200,000 to purchase about 6,000 doses of BadgerBCG vaccine for England’s bovine TB vaccination programme, prompting warnings that the

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Euro_badger@euro_badger5 Dec 2025
TRULY Shocking Daera U-turn as DAERA opt for culling badgers in 2026 without public consultation. Hard to believe? BTB Steering Group break up anticipated as months of work shredded due to hasty mistakes by DAERA officials egged-on with Dublin cash. ufuni.org/daera-btb-shared-i…

DAERA bTB shared island regionalisation project – information and UFU position | Ulster Farmers...

In April 2025, the TB Partnership Group’s Bovine TB in Northern Ireland: Blueprint for Eradication noted an action to develop and pilot a regionalised approach for the implementation of novel...

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They suffer. They die. For nothing. The badger cull is barbaric, unnecessary, and cruel. Science proves it doesn’t work, yet it continues. This has to stop. Enough is enough.
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Bovine tuberculosis; badgers finally in the clear! britishwildlife.com/cattle-t…

Cattle tuberculosis; badgers finally in the clear - British Wildlife

Bovine tuberculosis; badgers finally in the clear In the May 2023 issue of British Wildlife, I described the ‘weakened link’ between badgers and bovine TB (bTB) infection in cattle. Since that...

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Euro_badger@euro_badger28 Nov 2025
Time for dairy herds to focus on failed testing strictures. britishwildlife.com/cattle-t…

Cattle tuberculosis; badgers finally in the clear - British Wildlife

Bovine tuberculosis; badgers finally in the clear In the May 2023 issue of British Wildlife, I described the ‘weakened link’ between badgers and bovine TB (bTB) infection in cattle. Since that...

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Natural England tried to price us out of taking legal action but it backfired when the High Court threw out NE's claim ⚖️ We continue. Substantive legal challenge against NE Badger cull licences takes place in December 🦡 Press release 🔽 wildjustice.org.uk/badgers/h…
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Damn right! This is the TRUTH nobody wants to admit!
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dominic dyer
@domdyer7013 Oct 2025
The Government committed to ending all badger culling licences by 2026 in Parliament today with the exception of one licence in Cumbria which could run until 2029 subject to scientific evaluation. This is a huge & welcome step forward but we must end all culling now or run the risk of badger slaughter starting again under a new Reform Government in 2029 @BadgerTrust @BornFreeFDN @ProtectTheWild_ @LeagueACS
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Westminster debate after 100,000 people sign online petition demanding end to badger cull share.google/dsp8YGBqnC1Tvcg…

Westminster debate after 100,000 people sign online petition demanding end to badger cull

More than 100,000 people have backed calls for an immediate end to the controversial programme despite warnings from farmers’ leaders and some vets.

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Happening now: we’re about to enter Parliament to watch MPs debate the future of the Badger cull following our govt petition reaching 100,000 signatures.
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We will never stop fighting to end the Badger cull. Picture taken today outside Parliament ahead of the Parliamentary debate triggered by Protect the Wild’s petition. Huge thanks to Betty Badger (Mary Barton) for years of relentless campaigning on this issue.
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Euro_badger@euro_badger13 Oct 2025
Westminster Hall Badger Cull Debate begins at 4.30, Westminster. Betty Badger with Protect the Wild's Rob Pownall, hope for sense to prevail.
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Godfray BTB review update 2025: a failure to deliver. – The Badger Crowd – standing up for badgers share.google/YpBAgHL9T6BHPwT…

Godfray BTB review update 2025: a failure to deliver.

In December 2024, rather than have an independent review, Defra re-appointed some of its familiar advisors to update their 2018 Bovine TB Strategy Review.  To consider “new evidence or analysis” pu…

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TheBadgerCrowd@BadgerCrowd19 Sep 2025
2038 Bovine TB targets on the scrap heap, with details of failed policy increasingly exposed – The Badger Crowd – standing up for badgers share.google/4itUH9EzI5juBlt…
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2038 Bovine TB targets on the scrap heap, with details of failed policy increasingly exposed – The Badger Crowd – standing up for badgers share.google/4itUH9EzI5juBlt…
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