Badgers and Bovine Tuberculosis

Links to posts, articles and other resources.  I will be adding more sites as I find them, please let me know if there are any that should be here.

On this site

• Is the Pembrokeshire cull going to stay halted?
• The Evidence Supporting Badger Culls
• Costs of bovine tuberculosis vaccination
• Badger Vaccine Deployment Project cut to allow ineffective culling

BBC 

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  Pembrokeshire badger cull halted after appeal
• Badger Culling: Questions and Answers
• Science chief urges badger cull

BovineTB.co.uk “Looking for the reform of a costly and misguided system”

• http://www.bovinetb.co.uk/

Defra
I’ve had real trouble finding anything that actually supports the cull here, which fits in with the Freedom of Information results from Defra

• Bovine TB – The Facts
• Bovine TB: The Scientific Evidence (Independent Scientific Group on Cattle TB, 2007)
• Response to “Tuberculosis in Cattle and Badgers: A report by the Chief Scientific Adviser” - F.J. Bourne, C.A. Donnelly, D.R. Cox, G. Gettinby, J.P. McInerney, W.I. Morrison & R. Woodroffe (Former members, Independent Scientific Group on Cattle TB)
• Developing a Bovine TB Eradication programme for England - The Bovine TB Eradication Group for England - October 2009
• Site search results for Badger Cull

Farmer's Guardian

• Vets back badger cull strategy

Guardian

• Kill the cull, not Wales's badgers - Brian May - Comment is Free

Pembrokeshire Against the Cull

• http://www.pembrokeshireagainstthecull.org.uk/

Peter Black AM

Too many to list really, Peter has done an amazing amount of work on this.

• Badger cull order squashed by court of appeal
• Google site search results

Plaid Cymru

• Plaid comment on cull decision

Rob's View (from the sidelines)

• Bovine TB

Roger William
Lib Dem MP for Brecon and Radnorshire

• Williams expresses disappointment at High Court badger cull decision

RSPCA

• Back off badgers

Stop the Badger Cull

• Links to campaigns against the culls

Wales Online

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  Badger cull quashed after drafting blunder

Studies

• Krebs Study / The Randomised Badger Cull Trial
• Jenkins, HE., Woodroffe, R., Donnelly, CA, 2008. The effects of annual widespread badger culls on cattle tuberculosis following the cessation of culling. International Journal of Infectious Disease 12: 457-465
• Jenkins, HE., Woodroffe, R., Donnelly, CA, 2010. The duration of the effects of repeated widespread badger culls on cattle tuberculosis following the cessation of culling. PLoS ONE. 5(2):e9090,OI:10.1371/journal.pone.0009090
• Bovine tuberculosis in cattle and badgers (The King Report)