They Were Scared About What Might Be Found. That is A Cover Up.

 

I had a "little whisper" from a reliable person that the reason I was lied to about badgers not undergoing post mortems due to the possibility of bovine TB was that if we submitted all the badgers recorded and each one was shown not to have bTB (it was considered "highly unlikely" that they would) it would undermine th reasons for the badger cull.

I further decided to check with the Health and Safety Executive and their rule of "no badger post mortems in the PM lab".  No such rule. Just the "natural and proper pre PM checks".

Guess what? While I was being given the "HSE will NOT allow it" crap the PM lab was undertaking badger post mortems.

The question is, and I think we have the answer now, WHAT were they trying to cover up?

The UK is an awful place for wildlife and trying to gain knowledge about wildlife health issues and treatments.

As an addenda this is what you will find online:

Badger post-mortems (necropsies) are strictly regulated to manage the severe risk of zoonotic diseases—primarily Bovine Tuberculosis (Mycobacterium bovis). They must not be performed on standard clinical premises or by the general public; examinations are exclusively handled by specialised facilities like the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) or specific research projects

The APHA were the ones allegedly refusing permission to carry out badger PMs while authorising badger PMs -ON standard clinical premises.  The bTB excuse is a good cover.

Few People Care About Traditional Wildlife Pathways

 

Sadly, it is not rare to hear of badger runs or entrances into gardens being blocked off. If a sett was involved then we could do something but in this case if it is a private/local authority owned home the tenants can block holes in fences.  Thgis is from the BS10 area:

 "I suspect their route has been blocked but I don't know which direction they're coming from their sett. (A few years ago, when  I contacted the Badger Trust about a neighbour damaging a sett in garden, they said they knew where the main set probably was.) 

"I've had adult & young badgers coming in for years. I always leave water for them & sometimes dog biscuit left over from foxes. There was an attempt by a badger to smash through the fence on the other side of my garden at the time the badgers stopped visiting.

" Unfortunately there's only one entrance for them, which is through a tunnel under the opposite fence, which they no longer seem able to access ."

This is the UK and very few people really care about wildlife let alone about an endangered species or its right to survive on traditional clan territory that humans have built on.,

This Is NOT A Hobby

 

When a location is given for a badger death it is left a bit vague for obvious reasons, The exact location is never given.

So "There is a dead badger I've just passed" and then a refusal to give location means that report cannot be included. It's void.

When you post video clips onto social media of 'your' badgers and a polite enquiry is made then totally ignoring the enquiry is not very badger friendly,

Badgers like foxes are NOT your garden pet to help you get social media likes.

Behave and report responsibly because we are trying to save badgers,

Correction To Previous Post and Analysis

 

Correction. There is a report that was missed as it went to Bristol Foxes and Badgers.

Sadly, we hit the key number taking us past any previous year's losses up to 14 06 2026:

067 Thursday 11 06 2026 dead badger on main road to Portbury roundabout, the road coming from Leigh woods.

068 Thursday 11 06 2026 dead badger on Sylvian Way just off the Portway

069 Thursday 11 06 2026 RTA badger cub A369 Martcombe Road in Easton-in-Gordano.

070 Saturday 13 06 2026 Dead badger on side of road A370 at Cleeve , just prior to Budgens towards Congresbury.

Here is what you get when asking AI about this number of losses:

If 70 badgers have been confirmed dead on the road the likely actual number of deaths is between 105 and 140.

The true death toll is typically significantly higher than reported figures due to several factors:

Underreporting & Carcasses Thrown: Many badgers are hit but manage to crawl off the road into nearby vegetation to die, meaning they are never seen or counted on the tarmac.
Scavenging & Decay: Dead badgers left on the roadside are often scavenged by other animals or rapidly decompose, causing them to disappear before they can be recorded. [1]

We are reaching a key number in Badger losses

 Today another badger was reported dead. At the current rate we will surpass previous years reports.

069 Dead badger on side of road A370 at Cleeve , just prior to Budgens towards Congresbury.

Up to 14 06 2025 we had 62 confirmed badgers. Reporting is getting better(?) but the real total would be staggering.

68th KNOWN Badger Death This Year

 

068 Thursday 11 06 2026 RTA badger cubA369 Martcombe Road in Easton-in-Gordano BS20