Number 63

 

Dead badger number 063 was reported from Stockwood this morning. A lady removed it from the road to stop vehicles repeatedly driving over it.

remember that this is only the 63rd reported dead badger we know of. The actual number of deaths, as noted in a previous post, are likely very high.

RTA Badger 062

 

062     Monday 01 06 2026  A4174 ring road Badger near to Emerson's Green -again flattened and looks to have been there for some time

M5 Badger Cub Rescue

 Bristol Wildlife Rescue (Sarah Mills) was contacted by Avon and Somerset Constabulary who asked if they could assist with a badger on the north side of the M5?

A sow badger had been killed outright by a car -the driver stopped to report it to police as the collision had taken his front bumper off. A cub that was with her ran off and a dog walker watched where it went and made a grass arrow pointing to its position (she had to leave as she had the dog).

The cub was found and after it decided to be uncooperative in getting into a cage (a good sign as it shows it has strength enough -it even puffed itself up). It has some fly strike like its mother but is now with a vet for fluids before it being decided where it goes to recover.

All video/photos (c) 2026 S. Mills

"The UK is currently one of the most nature-depleted countries on Earth"

 

"The UK is currently one of the most nature-depleted countries on Earth, with an average 19% decline in species abundance since 1970. Nearly 1 in 6 (16%) of the over 10,000 studied species are threatened with extinction, placing the country in the bottom 10% globally for biodiversity intactness"

http://stateofnature.org.uk/

100,000...60,000...now 50,000: How Badger Death Figures Are Lazy Dogma

 

Over at the Fox Project Bristol (Face Book) I just noted how statistical analysis shows what the true number of road kill foxes might be.

How that is done is explained there but I thought that I would check a couple of the estimation sites and see what figure they come up based on the 61 known deaths in BBG area:

"If 61 badgers are reported killed, the true total is estimated to be between 122 and 183 deaths, as reported collisions often only represent one-third to one-half of actual incidents. The higher total accounts for unrecorded deaths, where animals crawl away to die, and the lack of comprehensive reporting."

Sadly, I have to say that the lower estimate is what I would expect BUT that is me just wanting a low overall figure.

It used to be estimated that 100,000 badgers died on UK roads every year. Then it went down to 60,000 and the new"guess without much work" is 50,000. I cannot see that as accurate. We lost over 300,000 badgers through the unscientific cull and no one knows how many killed illegally and that includes by "badgermen" hired by farmers on the quiet.In some areas badgers are extinct and none could be found to fill cull quotas and bTB free badgers were killed to fill quotas -I will hold back any comment.

I suspect that badger road deaths (genuine ones not staged 'road deaths' to sell to taxidermists) number in the low thousands by now. It shows just how out of touch and reliant on dogma and just repeating easily remembered figures national bodies are -and local groups repeat the same old figures.

Correction Due To Receipt of Late Report

 

060       Thursday 28 05 2026 --- Headley Rd, Bishopsworth B13 7RN  sow badger thin, possibly part blind 4.2kg PTS

 

061       Friday 29 05 2026 Just FYI I just picked up a dead female badger in the middle of the a369 westbound near gordaño services.

Another Badger Death Reported.

 Hopefully, being able to see the daily/weekly badger losses this will give the reader some idea of how many badgers (we are already up to 137 known dead foxes) we lose locally. Then think about that on a national basis (where there are any badgers left).

THANKS to the person who stopped and reported.

060 Friday 29 05 2026 Just FYI I just picked up a dead female badger in the middle of the A369 westbound near Gordaño services BS20.