The Badger Crowd is a grassroots support and fundraising coalition including Badger Groups and Trusts around the UK, the public and a range of charities and funds.
An extended team of scientists and advisors surround this work, from microbiologists, pathologists, statisticians, population biologists, zoologists, ecologists, legal experts, lawyers, farmers and charity workers in the nature conservation and animal welfare sectors.
In particular
Ecologist Tom Langton has considerable experienced in nature conservation, legal challenge and disease research work and has fronted recent challenges as a part of and with support from ‘The Badger Crowd’. He has published, with others, on the science of bTB and badgers (here, here and here).
Dominic Woodfield of the ecological consultancy Bioscan UK has provided expert witness evidence on ecological impact and assessment, including impacts on SSSI’s and designated international sites (SPA, SAC, RAMSAR) of nature conservation importance.
The Badger Crowd believes that legal challenges and scientific challenges are an important part of the fight against badger culling. The Labour party have announced that they are developing a new strategy, but we are concerned that they are not listening to the best advice. If they continue to follow flawed science, the bovine TB policy will continue to fail farmers, tax payers and our precious wildlife.
The Badger Crowd is here to try to stop the mistakes from continuing.