East Hampshire Badger Group

Badgers have been resident in Britain since long before Neolithic times, once roaming these Isles alongside elks and bears. The East Hampshire poet Edward Thomas described the badger as 'that most ancient Briton of English beasts'.

Indeed many people today recognise that the badger is a valuable and most beautiful part of our natural heritage, more than worthy of mankind's efforts to safeguard it's future.

Although most people would recognise a badger because of it's distinctive facial markings, few people have actually seen this mysterious animal due to it's secretive and nocturnal habits.

Badgers are social creatures, living together in family groups called clans. During the day the clan sleeps together in an underground system of tunnels and chambers called a sett. The cubs are usually born at the main sett in February and will remain dependent upon the sow until the end of June.

Territorial by nature, badgers regularly patrol and defend the family range which contains their setts and valuable foraging areas.

Foragers rather than hunters, badgers eat a varied omnivorous diet consisting mainly of earthworms. However, slugs, beetles, wasp nests, nestling rabbits and rodents, grubs, fruit, berries and nuts are also eaten.

Links:

National Federation of Badger Groups

British Trust for Conservation Volunteers

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