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An article where Tris answers the questions raised on badgers and damage issues.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/property/article-14412553/Badgers-sett-sons-property-do.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3uoY1RLZlngqvlcbNTbceDzBDEB6Onskutkk0OrIGuk5oE5gwankP36xY_aem_SL91sXbWMe-JEmmoEQVPMQ

Badgers have made a sett under my son's property - what can we do? Badgers have made their sett under my son's garage, digging out several tonnes of soil into his neighbour's garden. What should we do next?

We often get sent great feedback and comments from people who have read George's badger book and we appreciate them all and they are hearwarming to read, but this one we recently received is really delightful;

"I'm hoping that this email finds its way to George E. Pearce's family, because I want them to know how amazing I think Mr. Pearce's book is!

As soon as I started reading it resonated completely with my own philosophies and my own experiences. Without any knowledge of the author I was soon thinking, I must meet this person! Sadly, I learned that the author had since died, but it appears that his two children are continuing his legacy, which is fantastic to learn.

Every page of Mr. Pearce's book has been fascinating, and I have learned so much about badgers from his wisdom and experience. It really has felt like reading a book written by a kindred spirit. It's been a fantastic and engaging read and I wanted his family to know how much I have enjoyed it."

Badger Gate Hire
Badger gates can be expensive to buy or have made and often ecologists or project team only need them for the min 21-day period, so why buy when you can hire?
Prices are per week, with a minimum of 3-week hire.
Ask for delivery costs or you can collect.
• Manufactured from galvanised steel to allow safe badger exit
• A lightweight gate that allows rabbit and fox exit is available (Gate C)
• Holes in the gate frames to fix mesh too (All Gates).
• Two designs can be used for flat application in mesh (without sliding feet)
• Two-way gates available for fencing applications
• Note- A licence is required to fit gates to an active badger sett, it is your responsibility to ensure this. Cleaning charge may apply if returned in bad state.
• 30 years’ experience in badger gates/sett closures
• We have 4 choices for hire, see below:

March dates now booked up, so more dates added.
Badger Training Courses April 2024
Level 1 - Badger Ecology and Sett Surveying (Shropshire)
Cost: £100 pp Dates available: 13/04/2024
Content~
1. Badger Ecology including anatomy, biology, life cycle, and diet
2. Introduction to threats to badgers, including wildlife crime
3. Badger Legislation
4. Surveying a sett, Current use, Field Signs, Sett Types, Sett mapping
5. Surveying techniques and Data recording
6. Monitoring a sett, use of trail cameras, bio security and health and safety
1 day course with classroom and outdoor sessions, therefore attendee must be fit and able to walk across rough terrain and require appropriate outdoor clothing and footwear. Please bring your own lunch, but hot and cold soft drinks will be provided.
One space available for ‘pay what you can’ viewed on application basis
(Max 6 persons per event)
Level 2 - Badgers and development, badger damage, licences and mitigation (Shropshire)
Cost: £150 pp Dates available: 14/04/2024
Content ~
1. Legislation, protection and planning
2. Best practice guidance and Survey requirements
3. Producing reports
4. Licensing
5. Assessing impacts to badgers
6. Providing for badgers on development sites
7. Badgers causing damage to land or property
8. Differences in rural and urban badgers
9. Mitigation options, including avoidance, protection and enhancement.
10. Artificial badger setts
11. Sett exclusion, closure and ‘live sett’ digs
12. Case studies
This course is aimed at ecologists, consultants, local authority ecologists, conservation officers, students, badger group members and those who have attended our ‘Level 1 - Badger ecology and surveying’ course or are already experienced in undertaking badger surveys and have a capable understanding of badger ecology. Following attendance, you should have a better understanding of impacts, mitigation, enhancement and be able to design appropriate survey and mitigation strategies and apply for badger licences.
1 day course with classroom and outdoor sessions, therefore attendee must be fit and able to walk across rough terrain and require appropriate outdoor clothing and footwear. Please bring your own lunch, but hot and cold soft drinks will be provided.
To book please email [email protected]

Little licensed badger exclusion under a shed before it gets demolished.

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Badger Behaviour, Conservation & Rehabilitation A fascinating insight into the badger’s world. Badger biology, life in the sett, rescue & rehabilitation, consultancy, badgers & farming, and badger-watching with George Pearce – an expert on badgers. George has surveyed over 700 sites, visited 1,500 setts, been consulted as an expert in...

Urban badger bedding takes many forms, they have ripped this old cushion open.

Carrying on the legacy, What a wonderful badgery success story, and what 5 years difference makes. This is a new badger sett Tris built in 2016 and here it is in 2021. It was built owing to the required closure of a main sett due to a housing development and also the relocation of electrical services at the old sett location. In 2016 we built this new sett, it was in a fantasctic place where an old outlier sett existed and from week one, badgers were using it, in fact when monitored in 2017 and 2018 cubs had been born there.
In 2021 we decided to re-visit and the level of activity is just fantastic, green bedding going in and the polished areas around the sett indicate cubs are here. The elder trees are now used as scratching trees and badgers have excvated out the old outlier too, into a 7 entranced sett, annexing the new main sett. It is all as we had wished for and so pleasing to see enhanched mitigation for badgers. Tris Pearce runs training in badgers, surveying, mitigation and enhancement if you need to gain more knowledge

30 years ---------------- 1991 -2021-------------------------------
30 photos as memories.

We are celebrating 30 years since George set up as a badger consultant. back in 1991 he was still farming, building a wall when a call came in to help RSPCA exclude some badgers from a sett with these new badger licenses from MAFF (before English Nature and even before Natural England), so he went and that was a new careeer and business for him, Tris his son joined later and still keeps the buisness going with wife Charlotte. Here are some memories of 30 years as Badger Consultants....... how things were then....

RIP George Pearce and Chris Thomas # # #

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Requests for badger surveys coming in like mad. Still a good time of year to do it. Tris is a badger specialist and deals with the more complex jobs.