Bovine TB and the badger cull archive

Farm minister tells farmers to lay off the badgers

• Paice badger cull remarks clarified by DEFRA
• Badger cull decision still on course
• VIDEO: Minister answers Twitter questions
• DEFRA secretary thanks farmers for patience on TB
• TB Consultation: English badger cull proposals unveiled
• VIDEO: Paice explains badger control policy
• VIDEO: Paice reasserts commitment to badger cull at Dairy Event
• VIDEO: DEFRA sets out badger cull plans at Game Fair
• Bovine TB deaths in dramatic first-quarter fall
• DEFRA scales down badger vaccination trial
• Minister confirms badger cull to combat bovine TB
• Badger vaccination moves a step closer
• DEFRA consults on badger vaccination
• Tories plan to charge farmers for the cost of a badger cull
• DEFRA TB advisers demand aid for farmers
• Badger cull has desired effect in Ireland
• DEFRA confirms badger cull will not go ahead

What farmers and landowners say

• National Trust unveils badger TB vaccination plan
• Dairy industry leader demands action on TB
• Farm industry backs Welsh Assembly's cull plan
• NFU outlines TB consultation response
• National Trust backs badger cull plans
• TB Consultation: Welsh badger cull plan meets mixed reaction
• TB Consultation: West Country farmers prepared to cull
• TB Consultation: Farmers and vets welcome badger cull plans
• VIDEO: Royal Welsh visitors discuss the merits of badger culling
• RW 2010: FUW calls for badger cull licences
• Cost of Bovine TB 'could hit £1 billion'
• Beef Expo: Vaccinating badgers will backfire
• VIDEOS: Farmers urged to begin bovine TB fightback

What the opposition says

• Fresh doubts cast on badger cull
• Extremist threats over badger cull
• Badger Trust challenging legality of cull plans
• Anti-cull calls threatening, claims union
• Badger Trust urges AMs to block badger cull
• Badger cull ‘could cost more than TB’
• Campaigners accused of misleading public over badger cull
• Complaint upheld against badger charity
• RSPCA submits 40,000 messages against cull
• TB consultation: Campaigners expected to challenge English badger cull
• Benn condemns government’s badger cull plan
• Game Fair 2010: Farmers to blame for bovine TB, says MP
• Rock star brands badger cull ‘genocide’
• ‘ Badgers not suffering from TB,’ says Badger Trust
• Benn 'should be congratulated' for anti-cull stance
• Irish badger culling fails to halt bovine TB spread, says Badger Trust
• Putting badgers on the pill?

What the Welsh Assembly says

• Identities of badger cull farms may be hidden
• Welsh assembly votes in favour of badger cull
• Wales gives green light to badger cull
• Badger cull in Wales - read full statement
• TB cases show sharp decline in Wales
• Welsh launch PR battle in badger cull zone
• TB Consultation: Wales revises badger control plans
• TB Consultation: Wales proposals FAQ
• Welsh aim to extend TB controls
• Badger cull legal battle leaves £57,000 taxpayer bill
• Welsh badger cull blocked on technicality
• The Welsh badger cull: in depth

What the scientists say

• New guidelines aid disease research
• Badger TB vaccine study unveiled
• Study to cut spread of bovine TB launched
• Badger cull would cut TB by a third, says FUW
• Badger culling can control TB, says research
• Scientists to probe TB vaccine trial
• Culling badgers ‘not a cost-effective way to stop TB’
• 'New evidence' on badgers and TB
• Woman catches bovine TB from garden badgers, report claims
• Bovine TB vaccination will not be effective in badgers for next 12 years says BCVA
• Badger cull decision must be revisted, says former government chief scientist
• Independent Scientific Group rubbishes Sir David King's report on bovine TB
• Chief scientist backs badger cull
• Badger cull not cost effective and would make no worthy contribution to tackling bovine TB, say scientists
• Science awry on badger cull, says society
• TB review claims badger cull may worsen matters
• Report boosts support for cull