Badgers: Conservation

(asked on 12th April 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to protect the wild badger population in England.


Answered by
Rebecca Pow Portrait
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 20th April 2021

In England, The Protection of Badgers Act 1992 restricts the killing, injuring or taking of badgers or interference with their setts. The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 provides protection against certain methods of killing or taking.

This domestic legislation fulfils our obligations under the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (the Bern Convention) to protect badgers and their populations.

Badger persecution is also one of seven UK wildlife crime priorities. Priority areas are those which are assessed as posing the greatest current threat to either the conservation status of a species or which show the highest volume of crime and therefore they are assessed as requiring an immediate UK-wide tactical response. Each priority area has an implementation plan with plan owners and with leads identified for the prevention of, and enforcement action against crimes.

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