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The badger
Reintroducing badgers in National Park Loonse en Drunense Duinen is also seen by farmers as a valuable increase in nature.
In England, there are badger setts which are entirely enclosed by buildings. The resident badgers are dependent on people for their food.
The badger sett
Badger sett in escarpment.
Badger sett near a farm.
Sett entrance with a large spoil heap. The badger cubs played around the entrance, leaving the ground outside hard and smooth.
Fresh digging.
Outlier sett near the river Maas.
A typical badger sett entrance. A banana-shaped spoil heap with a digging furrow. On the left in front of the entrance, the woodland floor is swept by the activities of the badgers.
A badger sett on flat terrain. The big mound of earth on the right is not dumped by a truck, but is in fact a spoil heap outside an entrance excavated by badgers.
Damage
Entrances of a badger sett, with large spoil heaps, in a corn field.
Badgers also root in pasture looking for insects and larvae. In exceptional cases this can cause major damage.
Large patches of uprooted grass is lying on the turf.
Outlier sett in a corn field.
Tracks and signs
Badgers dig shallow pits to use as a toilet (dung pit). A place where several dung pits are situated close together (as in this photo), is called a latrine.
Tracks in the snow. Badgers do not hibernate. They are just less active during the winter months.
As can bee seen by the many claw marks, badger cubs use this fallen tree for their boisterous play.
Traces of badgers rooting along the waterfront.
Badger sett entrance with on the foreground a scratching tree. Note the claw marks.
A wasps' nest dug out by a badger.
Threats
Badger footprints in the mud along the side of a road. (lower left).
The road here is so close to the badger sett that a spoil heap is run over by cars.
A farmer illegally felled a hedgerow with a badger sett in it. Now cattle is destroying what is left of the badger sett by trampling all over the sett area.
The badgers take refuge in a meadow, on the other side of the track.
Footprints of badgers along a railway line.
Large quantity of garden waste dumped on a badger sett.
A badger sett was completely destroyed by playing children.
Vandals blocked this entrance with a tree stump. The presence of bedding indicates that this entrance is used by badgers.
Valuable badger foraging habitat is lost by gravel mining and the digging of gravel pits. Here the resulting pool almost reaches the badger sett.
This active main badger sett is partially destroyed by heavy machinery during coppicing operations.
The badgers that have survived the coppicing operations now inhabit a badger sett without any shelter nor readily available food.
Protection
Along a main road through a nature reserve special road signs warn motorists of stretches of road where they are likely to encounter crossing badgers.
Reintroduction of badgers in National Park Loonse en Drunense Duinen.