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caused by Mycobacterium bovis, a close relative of the bacterium that usually causes TB in humans. Because the bovine bacterium can also cause human TB, infected cattle have to be destroyed. The incidence of the disease has been growing in Wales. WAG says that more than 12,000 cattle were slaughtered as a result of TB infection in 2008 (compared with 669 in 1997), at a cost of £24m to the public purse.
About badgers
Badgers are members of the Mustelidae family,which also includes otters, polecats, mink, ferrets, stoats and weasels. They are widesperad throughtout England and Wales, with a few small colonies in Scotland. Although they are classified as
sign badgers are present. The grubbing up of grassland by
carnivores, badgers actually eat a wide variety of foods. A large proportion of their diet consists of earthworms, but they are opportunistic foragers and will also feed on fruit, berries, small mammals, birds, carrion, insects and other invertebrates at various times of the year. An average social group of adults will be made up of 5-12 males, females, juveniles and cubs. In areas where the population is low, there may be just one individual or a pair using a sett. In one area of the Cotswolds, it is estimated that there are thirty adult badgers per square kilometre. Badgers make runs to and from
badgers is the result of foraging for earthworms or insect larvae that can be found just under the surface.
Control
Under the Protection of Badgers Act 1992, it is a criminal offence to wilfully kill, injure, take, cruelly ill treat or offer for sale a living badger. It is also an offence to damage a badger sett or any part of it, including; to obstruct access to, or entrance of a badger sett; to cause a dog to enter a badger sett; or disturb a badger when it is occupying a sett. It is an offence to use creosote
or any other chemical preparation to prevent a badger entering a sett.
What can be done?
their setts. These can become very obvious pathways over time, and very little will prevent a family group using an established run. They will dig under fences, walls etc. if they are put in the way of their path.
The entrances to a badger sett will be oval, similar in shape to the human eye, the shape is created because badgers dig out by pushing all the spoils from the side. Bedding is regularly changed in a set, the old bedding is pushed outside and left - an oval hole with dead grass and lots of dug out soil is a dead give away that it is an active sett.
Established setts can be over one hundred years old, and the underground tunnels can cover thousands of square metres. Dug pits, which are scrapes in the soil with very runny droppings in the bottom, are another definite
Reducing the numbers of earthworms, insect larvae and beetles by using one of the approved pesticides can reduce the impact caused by badgers in sensitive areas. High powered electric fences, that are switched on only at night, with one strand of wire 8cm from the ground and a second wire 18cm high, will deter all but the most determined badger from an area. We, as a business, have
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