Thousands of badgers are being culled to reduce bovine tuberculosis (bTB), but in the bright lights of British cities these nocturnal animals are afforded an unlikely refuge.
Anti-cull opinion is supported no more ardently than by the Wildlife Trust (tagline: “badgers are important”), their president Simon King and Sir David Attenborough.
Now, ‘urbanites’ – urban anti-cull activists – are getting behind them by protecting sets, habitats and welcoming badgers into their urban community.
“Habitat awareness and site security must be most important”, says BBC Two Springwatch presenter Kate Macrae, who lives in a semi-urban area in Staffordshire.
Jane Adams, an urban naturalist, says: “We need to learn how to adapt to life with them, just as they have had to adapt to a life surrounded by us”.
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