Badger Tunnels

Shewhomustbe...

http://www.badgerland.co.uk/help/badgers/precautionary/badger_tunnels.html

These are a fantastic idea and solution to an ongoing problem and I'm glad someone realised that development also causes destruction because I don't know about anyone else but I'm sick of seeing dead animals on the roads (shame no-one was progressive enough here to consider them during the building of all the new roads)

tallus

They look like they might be expensive to install/fit

Shewhomustbe...

Probably would be now that roads have been finished, though I don't think you should put a price on helping to keep animals alive (but I'm sure someone has a figure somewhere :rolleyes: )
It would be better if they included the tunnels when drawing up the plans as I don't see them being expensive to include during construction.

Alun

In the Netherlands, on a motorway that passes through the Hoge Veluwe, a National Park, they even built a couple of special bridges especially for the animals (deer mainly). The page is in Dutch, but you can see a picture of one here ... http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecoduct .

Shewhomustbe...

They're fantastic, would anyone know if the badgers in this country are considered to be close to endangerment, feel sick everytime I pass a dead one (or a fox, rabbit, hare) on the roads.



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Alun

Shewhomustbe... wrote:

you can change the language to English, check out the left hand column

No need for me, I speak fluent Dutch, so I didn't actually bother looking Well spotted!

tallus

Shewhomustbe... wrote:

Probably would be now that roads have been finished, though I don't think you should put a price on helping to keep animals alive (but I'm sure someone has a figure somewhere :rolleyes: )
It would be better if they included the tunnels when drawing up the plans as I don't see them being expensive to include during construction.

I agree whole heartedly but there are certain people who dont like badgers.

peasant

Authorities here couldn't even be bothered to spend a few Euros painting proper white lines and putting cats eyes on our roads to prevent people from dying ..fat lot of hope that leaves for badgers :mad:

Carb

Shewhomustbe... wrote:

They're fantastic, would anyone know if the badgers in this country are considered to be close to endangerment, feel sick everytime I pass a dead one (or a fox, rabbit, hare) on the roads.



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Not even close, its only a short while ago the government were talking about a badger cull becasue of TB spreading to cattle, although I know farmers that have their cattle in fields with badger sets for years, and the cattle never failed a TB test. Considering the fact that a lot of cattle that were slaughtered for failing a TB test, were later discovered that they didn't have TB, I'd have my doubts that the government actually know what they're talking about.

tallus

I heard that somewhere too Carb,that Badgers carry bovine tb. Never knew if it was a substantiated claim though.

Carb

tallus wrote:

I heard that somewhere too Carb,that Badgers carry bovine tb. Never knew if it was a substantiated claim though.

I think they definitely do carry it, but what I can't understand is how they supposedly spread it. I remember at home that a group of huntsmen offered to clear out the badger sets on a farmers land and he did not hesitate in telling them to feck off, and that he'd cattle on that land all his life and never had a TB problem. A cull is not going to eradicate the decease amongst badgers anyway.

tallus

sounds fair enough. Fair play to the farmer.