Disturbing Badgers..?

[benedmonds]

We have a school site with a strip of land consisting of a neglected hedge and over grown area, The residents and school want to reduce the hedge and cut back the brambles. There is however a badger sett in the area, I have yet to see the ecologists report but apparently it says works can be undertaken up June until December. Anyone had experience working around badgers.. ?

[muldonach]

Not direct personal experience but just had SSE in contact a couple of weeks ago - they want to replace a pole on our land but there is a sett under the pole.

 

They fitted some one way gates into the sett holes so that the badgers cannot (in theory) get back in once they leave - all under licence.

 

Did not go and look so cannot comment further - but there is at least a potential for getting the work you want to do done

 

Cheers

mac

[Gary Prentice]

Am I the only one who is confused in that one week I'm hearing that it's okay to cull and the next you need an ecology report and can't disturb them?

[Peter]

You can Cull them, but you have to do it while they're looking the other way, so as not to disturb them.

[peatff]

I thought he'd found some disturbing badgers

 

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[benedmonds]

Am I the only one who is confused in that one week I'm hearing that it's okay to cull and the next you need an ecology report and can't disturb them?

 

Same with birds, you can shoot pigeons, but don't disturb their nest..

[Brett]

******* pigeons.

[woody paul]

Do the job at night when there out and about digging up grass lawns and crapping every were.

[Spruce Pirate]

Have done a couple of badger sett fells. One was inactive, felled all trees away from the sett (as much as possible, bearing in mind the sett was in the middle of the wood), stumps left high so no machinery can get in and disturb the sett. Other one was an active site, license needed from SNH and paperwork had to be physically on site. Trees felled away from sett, all debris had to be cleared from entrance holes and runs on a daily basis. Couldn't fell before 8am or after 5pm, all work had to be completed within a timeframe too, but can't remember the exact details. Rules might be different for England.

 

Neither job was difficult, just had to think a wee bit more as to where and how the trees were felled to avoid damage and minimise the clear up.

[Will Heal]

Do the job at night when there out and about digging up grass lawns and crapping every were.

 

 

Or in the daytime when cattle are catching TB from them

 

 

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