An anti-culling group will protest outside an Oxford College tomorrow.

Oxfordshire Badger Group is set to demonstrate outside Merton College for ecologist Professor Rosie Woodroffe's talk titled 'Badgering - the quest for science-based management of bovine tuberculosis (TB)'.

The group said it is looking forward to hearing Professor Woodroffe's talk and hopes that through the action, Oxford's scientists will "accept new evidence that continuing the cull will not help farmers control bovine TB".

Bovine TB is a chronic bacterial disease of animals.

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Trustee of the Badger Group, Linda Ward, said: "Professor Woodroffe and other scientists from Merton College and Oxford University cannot stay silent when their original research is being used to justify killing nearly a quarter million badgers.

"The government is considering calls to allow the local extermination of badgers in Oxfordshire.

"We just want Oxford’s scientists accept new evidence that continuing the cull will not help farmers control bovine TB."

Ms Ward had previously written a letter to the Oxford Mail in September in which she estimated that around 60 per cent of the county west of a line from Banbury to Thame "is a killing zone".

The Oxfordshire Badger Group is a charity that aims to celebrate and protect the badgers of Oxfordshire.

Chairwoman of the group, Julia Hammett, added: "We hope Rosie will support bringing the cruel and ineffective badger cull to an immediate end."

The University of Oxford has been contacted for comment.