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A sett or set is a badger's den. It usually consists of a network of tunnels and numerous entrances. It usually consists of a network of tunnels and numerous entrances. The largest setts are spacious enough to accommodate 15 or more animals with up to 300 metres (1,000 ft) of tunnels and as many as 40 openings.
Badger-baiting is a form of blood sport in which badgers [1] are baited with dogs. [2] A baiting session typically results in the death of the badger, and possibly serious injuries to the dogs. Background
In 2014 and 2015 Wessex Water undertook tree clearance and the removal of bracken from the site without disturbing badger setts and potential bat roosts. Information boards about the local wildlife were also installed. [6]
Officers also advised if anyone finds illegal snares, traps or evidence of disturbance to badger setts or birds nests to report it to them. Follow BBC Nottingham on Facebook , on X , or on Instagram .
Badger setts are also visible just below Thady's Lamp, and Coonagh once had a large population of badgers, although illegal badger baiting in recent decades has resulted in a decline of the native population
To avoid disturbing the bird, the photographer clicked this image swiftly from afar. "Spiked" by David Northall A bloodied honey badger attacks a Cape porcupine.
One of the sites has active badger setts. Suffolk Wildlife Trust owns part of the largest of the wooded areas, Bonny Wood, which it operates as a nature reserve of 20 hectares (49 acres), maintaining the coppiced woodland as a series of habitats. [6] Barking is listed as a settlement with 63 households in the 1086 Domesday Book. [7]
Wild In Your Garden was a live BBC Television show, broadcast in 2003.. Presenters Bill Oddie, Kate Humble (both in a suburban garden in Bristol, England) and Simon King (mostly on location nearby) presented live action from a number of hidden cameras in or near nest boxes, badger setts and the like.