Just to update.
I have just been adding more info to the locations of badger activity/setts in the area covered by Bristol Badger Group.
I need to make something clear.
When I state "badger activity" I mean a sighting (regular) whether regular visitors to a garden or just seen moving about an area. It means, of course, that there is a badger sett in those areas it is just that we do not know where.
The policy has always been to log activity but not go out searching for a sett or checking on them as such activity attracts the wrong sort of attention.
Unless a sett or long established clan territory is under threat we keep a low profile.
We are NOT going to build up a big map and post it around or list locations. Priority is animal welfare and safety.
This practice of logging animal species sightings but not divul;ging l;ocations is built upon field experience from 1976 and 1977 when I became a UK police forces exotic animal consultant. There are active hunting groups (shooters) which really should be banned but they are spread throughout wildlife groups online and they pose a serious threat to animals. Badger baiting has taken place in Gloucestershire and so there is extra caution.
Again, if you know of a sett message me and if you see anyone hanging around a sett you do not know please report it.
So, how many locations are listed? 56 why so many? Well you have to remember that Eastville, Easton, Filton and many other areas of Bristol were once villages and badgers lived near each village so as each village became a part of Bristol so did its badgers -trapped in a growing sea of roads and buildings.
I am not sure how big London's urban badger population is but we need to protect what we have.
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