The Wiltshire Badger Group aims to promote the study, conservation and protection of badgers, and to take part in any activities, which will advance public education concerning badgers.

Threats to badgers

Badgers in the UK are threatened by both legal and illegal activities. Legal activities, subject to compliance with conditions in the 1992 Act, include:

• road and housing development;
• forestry and agricultural operations;
• badger culling by the Ministry of Agriculture in relation to bovine TB in cattle;
• sett-stopping by fox hunts.

Illegal threats to badgers include:

• badger-digging and baiting;
• snaring;
• poisoning (including the misuse of pesticides);
• lamping;
• sett interference.
A sett after it has been 'crowned down'
by badger diggers.