Protecting Badgers
| RSPB Spotlight on Badgers book |
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James
Lowen explores the lives of badgers and their communal
living, feeding habits and threats to their conservation. Click
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Badgers have been persecuted throughout history, and continue to
be tortured illegally today. If you see or suspect badger diggers
at a sett, do not risk your own safety; ring the police at once.
In addition to badger groups, other organisations are also
involved in badger protection:
Fox Hunting:
 We do not agree with hunting.
As a general rule, hunting should not be allowed.
In certain areas we will tolerate the movement of animals which
cause a serious problem (e.g. moving badgers from motorway or railway
embankments, etc). In very limited extreme circumstances, we will even tolerate
the killing of invsive pests if there is a real and genuine need
to protect rare keynote species, but only where humane methods are
used.
 Chasing a fox through the countryside with a pack of dogs and
then tearing it to pieces is not humane. Blood lust yes, but
humane? - we don't really think so. We have seen lists of
convicted badger baiters, and it was shocking to see how many of
these convicted criminals are also office-holders or former
office-holders or members of various hunts.
Importantly, as a fox hunters traditionally block up
badger setts (to prevent the fox going to ground and getting away
with its life); we are against fox hunting too.
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