Someone asked whether it was suspicious that so many badgers die in one spot? Not really because roads were built across wildlife trails used for hundreds if not thousands of years. Wildlife was given no consideration because...well, it meant nothing but the money from contracts to build roads meant a lot.
Far more foxes die (or rather are reported as being dead) on specific stretches of road that again were built on traditional game routes. In the BBG area we know these stretches. We have alerted the former Labour and now Green (not) City Council. Their response is that while wildlife over and underpasses might well save foxes, otters, badgers and numerous deer from death... "Well, it's the money".
Someone recently placed a home made sign for drivers at one spot to alert them to badgers crossing. Initially I asked the council whether it had placed the sign there? The response was a threat about legal action against me for the sign!! No idea if it is still there but I did tell the council that if it took legal action against me then I would counter sue and spend the money on more signs at wildlife danger spots. Nothing back.
We live in a country where ego, wealth and disregard for any wildlife is higher than anywhere else in Western Europe. I hope badgers survive but I still believe that in the 2030s we will hit a crisis point where they are extinct or so rare they are listed as Highly Endangered.
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