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Bovine tuberculosis

January 2024

  • A badger

    Badger culls are not best way to cut bovine TB, report finds

    Exclusive: Badger Trust analysis comes 10 years after government started culls in England against scientific advice

September 2023

  • Helen Macdonald with Geronimo at Shepherds Close Farm in Gloucestershire in August 2021

    Owner of Geronimo the alpaca says she is still fighting for justice

    Helen Macdonald is seeking closure and answers two years after her animal was euthanised by Defra

July 2022

  • A Dorset badger

    Experts call for stop to badger cull as link to bovine TB is contested

    Study found nine years of culling has failed to reduce bTB levels in UK cattle herds

March 2022

  • Testing cattle for TB

    Country diary
    Country diary: A nervous wait for tuberculosis results

    Tebay, Cumbria: Today we’re checking the herd for any signs of an outbreak. And it’s not just me who’s anxious, the vet is too

December 2021

  • Geronimo and his owner

    Geronimo owner ‘fighting for truth’ after inconclusive tests on alpaca

    Helen Macdonald calls process ‘a farce’ after postmortem tests suggest Geronimo might not have had bovine tuberculosis

September 2021

  • Helen Macdonald, left, the owner of Geronimo, with members of the Justice for Geronimo hold a protest outside the Defra offices in London.

    Geronimo postmortem results negative for TB, say owner’s lawyers

    Defra denies claim and says culled animal has ‘TB-like lesions’ and awaits further investigations

August 2021

  • Workers, who arrived with a police escort, surround Geronimo the alpaca at Shepherds Close Farm

    Geronimo the alpaca is killed after four-year battle to save him fails

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After a four-year legal battle, Helen Macdonald gave an emotional 
statement after her alpaca was forcibly removed from his home in 
Gloucestershire and put down

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    Geronimo’s owner says UK government 'planned to murder' alpaca – video

  • Geronimo the alpaca at Shepherds Close Farm near Wotton-under-Edge,

    The unsuccessful fight to save Geronimo the alpaca: a timeline

  • Three people, who arrived with a police escort, prepare to remove Geronimo the alpaca from a farm in Gloucestershire

    Geronimo the alpaca removed from farm with police escort

  • Geronimo’s owner says she has global support in fight for alpaca’s reprieve

  • Final legal effort to save Geronimo the alpaca thrown out by judge

  • Geronimo the alpaca’s future to be decided at hearing, says vet

  • On death row with Geronimo the condemned alpaca, and an army of ‘angels’ at his side

  • ‘It’s torture’: Geronimo owner tells of anxiety over threat to alpaca

  • TB or not TB? Why Geronimo the alpaca has divided experts

  • Campaigners march through London in bid to save alpaca Geronimo

  • George Eustice defends decision to cull alpaca Geronimo as ‘arduous but necessary’

  • No 10 refuses stay of execution for alpaca Geronimo who tested positive for bovine TB

July 2020

  • Badgers walk past cattle at a wildlife centre

    Bovine TB vaccine trials get go-ahead in England and Wales

    Scientific breakthrough could lead to phasing out of badger culling to tackle disease
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