Keighley Badger Watch

01/11/2025

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Damn right!

04/10/2025

On my travels still in Cumbria one more sett too find check log! I know the badgers are here fed them last year found were there coming in, can't get into the area i want too. But luckily for me there's some very wildlife friendly staff here and with photos of the badgers in question playing at 3.30am outside there staff lodgings. I've been told too wave at the security camera and just climb through the gap into the area i want 😆. One lovely staff member walked past one of the rat traps you see outside lots of places and saw it was moving she opened it and its windpipe had been crushed but it was still alive. Regardless of anyone's opinion this is beyond cruel! She sat with it until it passed, I know that didn't help but shows alot of empathy. Also met a chap who had brought his pigeon on holiday with him 😀 he rescued it 8yrs ago its a lump in the throat story, love meeting people that help and care for animals and humans. Anyway I will find this other sett and bonus 50 percent of if I get food at the place the lady is boss off. Hope everyone is good and keep doing your best for animals out there no matter how small you think your part might be it really isn't 🥰

29/09/2025

Anyone been to watch the documentary film the wilding its amazing if you get chance too its a good one and will hopefully give you some different views

29/09/2025

Spotted a badger sett in the Cumbria area lovely 12 entrance sett checked and logged while away. Lovely fresh snuffle holes .

21/09/2025

20/09/2025

Sorry so many updates at once! Steam trains have been running nightly ten to ten to be precise along the worth valley line for many weeks due too the amazing play of the railway children. I watched it was amazing unfortunately the badgers wasn't prepared for this sudden late night running! The train blows its horn approaching the bend were the sett is. 3 nights on the trott this didn't happen and a poor old badger was killed 😢 💔 again it was a volunteer that reported it on his way too the signal box for his shift. I live along the line and dragged myself down through the most awful brambles lol.to shout him for were it was. Same attitude when ringing the company. I don't get it. Defensive is not a good luck but least its known im along the way if mitigation isn't happening

20/09/2025

Blocked badger sett on the east coast all 9 entrances Blocked apsolutley was heartbreaking too find this 8yrs I've checked on this sett when there. They had also had a big fire. Lincolnshire wildlife officer went. Obviously it was too late for much to be done. I'm convinced after going back the badgers had a way out there's a big entrance nearly in a swamp at the back most would miss and they can get through to a golf course. Lots of wildlife crime goes unseen if you see something suspicious or it makes you question something report it. Don't walk away x

20/09/2025

A thankfully still active sett not local! I travel alot and check setts that I've previously found. This one baffled me over a year and half. I was concerned it was on a path with offlead dogs. Entrance holes right on the path next time I went, they had all gone. Couldn't figure it out until returning and right at the time and industrial grass cutter had been. Long story short since June the environment agency gave me the run around. So I went back September and with evidence and had already established some communication with the local wildlife officer. The day I was leaving finally some conclusion. Hazard zone set up for cutting. Meeting with contractors to discuss it at there end. Email for discussion or reporting anything badger along flood defences. Working together amicably is always better isn't it. Amonisitity seems to come from knowing done wrong but that doesn't help nobody or badgers

07/09/2025

A while back some might remember but if not, A local area were badgers had suffered from there sett being damaged by developers contractors, who was dealt with and an artificial sett was also built. There was various other factors that contributed to the area going quite but on surveys and kind locals allowing access to areas we knew the badgers was OK and just settling down. Last week which felt like a celebratory moment a young badger was picked up on camera having a mooch around in and out of the artificial sett. It's such a buetiful moment and a reflective moment, knowing things have now settled down nice and quiet and the badger family has now grown and feeling comfortable again around there home 🦡🦡

30/08/2025

Let's get some shares please folks 🙏

📢 We were promised change. Instead, we’re given excuses.

Labour’s manifesto pledged to stop the 'ineffective' cull – but they have broken that promise.

Any day now, the fourth and final year of the intensive cull will begin. It should NOT be going ahead. These are in addition to the supplementary culls, which are still ongoing, running from June to January in many areas

Badgers will be slaughtered in the following areas:

👉 Buckinghamshire, Cornwall, Derbyshire, Devon, Hampshire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Somerset & Warwickshire.

Badgers are being scapegoated for a disease where 94% of bTB is spread cow-to-cow, affecting cattle farming, and amplified in intensive dairy and beef production systems.

This is our last chance to stop the bloodshed.
🐾 Raise your voice and demand an end to the cull.
🐾 Share the campaign to End the Cull!

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23/08/2025

Just for information keighley badgers email address is currently down and not been able to retrieve so far! Working on it . Please use messenger or WhatsApp or mobile

22/07/2025

The government pledged to end the “ineffective badger culls”. Instead, 17,150 more badgers were killed in 2024.

Cull targets are missed, badgers go untested, and the real cause of bovine TB — cattle-to-cattle transmission (94% of all cases) — is ignored.

This is a failed, costly, and cruel policy.

📢 We need your help to stop it.

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