Category Archives: Wildlife Disease
Select Committee Report on Badgers and Bovine TB: Date Announced
The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee has today announced that it is to publish the report of its inquiry into Badgers and cattle TB on 27 February at 00.01am. Advance copies will be available under embargo from 9.30am … Continue reading
Parliamentary evidence on badgers and bTB
Today at 3.00 pm the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee is taking evidence on “Badgers and cattle TB,” which can be watched live on the internet. The Committee will first take evidence from former members of the Independent … Continue reading
Chief Science Adviser: Badger Culling
Sir David King, the Government Chief Science Adviser, has published a report on bovine TB in Cattle and Badgers. His conclusion that badger culling is an effective strategy for controlling bTB differed from the Independent Science Groups. Sir David’s assessment … Continue reading
Wildlife Health Strategy
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is holding a consultation on a Wildlife Health Strategy. One of the main drivers for the consultation is that policy responsibility for wildlife diseases is unclear. The strategy examines ways to improve … Continue reading
Badger Culling and Bovine TB – ISG Report
The Independent Science Group has published its final report to Defra on options for controlling TB in cattle. The ISG found that: “while badgers are clearly a source of cattle TB, careful evaluation of our own and others’ data indicates … Continue reading
Badgers and bTB
The BES’s Journal of Animal Ecology has published a paper that has important implications for the role of badger culling as part of the strategy to control bovine TB in the UK. According to the authors the evidence suggests that … Continue reading