Legislation

THE PROTECTION OF BADGERS ACT 1992 makes it illegal for a person:

• To wilfully, injure or take, or attempt to kill, injure or take, a badger.

• To possess any dead badger or any part of, or anything derived from, a dead badger.

• To cruelly ill-treat a badger.

• To use any badger tongs in the course of killing or taking, or attempting to kill or take, a badger.

• To dig for a badger.

• To damage a badger sett or any part of it.

• To destroy a badger sett.

• To obstruct access to, or any entrance of, a badger sett.

• To cause a dog to enter a badger sett.

• To disturb a badger when it is occupying a badger sett.

• To sell or offer for sale a live badger, or be in possession of a live badger.