Geronimo the alpaca: Animal activists descend on Downing Street

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Six year old Geronimo has twice tested positive for bovine tuberculosis and is set to be euthanised. 

Animal rights protesters descend on Downing Street after the government rejected calls to save the alpaca.

Helen Macdonald,  the alpaca’s owner, recently lost her final appeal at the High Court to save her beloved animal but argues the bovine tuberculosis tests have been returning false positives.

Read the full story here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/08/09/minister-rounds-boris-johnsons-father-launches-last-ditch-bid/

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Geronimo was a stud alpaca that resided at Shepherds Close Farm in Wickwar, Gloucestershire, England. After Geronimo tested positive for bovine tuberculosis, a highly publicised controversy erupted surrounding his fate and the British government’s policy of euthanising any animal that tested positive for bTB.

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