Every year there are several requests per month from people claiming to be students at various universities who want to film or photograph badgers and foxes in situ. Every single request is rejected and they should be. Today this message went out to Bristol groups:
"Hi! I am a student at Falmouth university currently doing a project on foxes and how the perception of them in society is conflicted- I aim to take some images of foxes in bristol, if anyone has any information on where they may be/ knows anyone who does i would be incredibly grateful! wanting to visit next week if anyone could help!"
There is a profile photo on the Face Book page for this person and it cannot be positively identified as belonging to the poster. There are no FB posts, photos or info and FB warns that this is a sign of a fake account. Every request has similar lack of info.
What is annoying is that a member of the Bristol Foxes and Badgers group immediately responded giving full location of year round active fox sites in an area.
There are people who look for this type of information and actively go out every night to shoot foxes for 'fun' (they like to call themselves 'sportsmen/women'. It is also coming up to cubbing season for badgers and foxes .
Badgers or foxes: if you know where they are keep quiet!!
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