Are Urban Badgers A Myth?

 We do not run around badger setts or clan territories looking for setts. After decades, including working with UK police forces, I learnt that such activity attracts the wrong sort of attention.

What we do is note where there is badger activity and although we know where a LOT of the setts are many are in private gardens and home owners protect them and do not allow anyone in to check although they do keep an eye on health issues and have our details just in case.

We know a great deal about urban foxes but there is little known on urban badgers which most 'experts' do no believe could survive in Cities.

The question is how many sett/activity locations are there in the City and County? The county as well as BANES, South Glos and N Somerset we know of some but people for specific reasons do not give out locations. Well, we are currently looking at one report and if it holds up there are a (known) total of 60 listed sites.

Even the old Avon Badger Group failed to find many of these and it is possible that their now 'lost' data may contain setts we do not know of.

Urban badgers are not myths and they are in the heart of the City.