Badger Surveys

Over the years, badger populations have been threatened by human activities, such as development, which often results in badger habitat loss and fragmentation. Badgers have also been subject to persecution and disturbance linked to recreational activities. This is one of the many reasons they are a protected species.

Badgers live in small social groups and are present in both rural and urban areas. Preferring areas of woodland, arable, copses and pasture, they live in underground tunnels and chambers called ‘setts’ and are most active during dusk, dawn and night-time. If you believe they are present on your property, you may want to have a badger survey conducted.

Badger Preliminary Ecological Appraisals (PEA) Surveys

Badgers are constantly threatened by human activity, resulting in losing their habitat often. there are multiple types of badger surveys, all designed to ensure…

Badger Presence/Absence Surveys

What is a Badger Presence/Absence Survey? Generally, presence/absence surveys entail surveying a site for evidence of badger activity. This includes identifying markers such as…

Badger Camera Trap & Bait Marking Surveys

Camera Trap Surveys Camera trap surveys use trail cameras to monitor badgers’ setts for evidence of activity. Bait marking surveys aim to identify which…

Badger Exclusions & Set Closure and Construction of Artificial Setts

When a Protected Species Mitigation Licence is granted, badger exclusion and badger sett closure can be undertaken.  How is Badger Exclusion & Sett Closure Undertaken The…

Badger Mitigation Licences

Protected Species Mitigation Licences are granted by Natural England and cover projects such as housing developments, the construction of pipelines and the building of…

Badger Survey Legislation

Badger populations continue to decline as a result of human activities. This has led to badger protection laws being introduced in the UK and EU. These laws include:

• Protection of Badgers Act 1992
• Wild Mammals (Protection) Act 1996

Under these legislations badgers are protected from:

Possessing, advertising for sale, selling or transporting for sale, live or dead (part or derivative).

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Capturing, killing, injuring and disturbing;

• Damaging or destroying setts;

• Obstructing access to setts;

• Deliberately sending or intentionally allowing a dog into a sett;

• Marking or attaching a marking device to a badger; and

• At Greenlight, we offer specialist Badger surveys that can help with planning permissions.

Every development proposal and Local Planning Authority (“LPA”) requires sufficient information to make sure badgers (and other protected species) obtain the highest protection against injury or disturbance during development.

If your project has the potential to impact local biodiversity, Greenlight Environmental Consultancy have the badger protection surveys and services to help.

If there is a chance that badgers will be harmed as a result of your development projects, our ecologist specialists can advise on the appropriate mitigation needed to ensure the species’ protection and reduce the ecological risk.

Overseeing Construction Works

The Greenlight team will watch and oversee construction works to ensure installation and works are kept outside a buffer zone, so destruction of badger setts and injury or killing of animals are avoided. This also includes toolbox talks.