**All New Secret World Badger Adoptions**


For only £3 a month , you will receive;
A limited edition Secret World Cuddly Badger (standing 30cm high)
A Secret World Trolley Keyring
A Secret World Car Sticker
Newsletter
Certificate

By purchasing a Badger Adoption, you are helping to care and protect these magnificent creatures.

To order your badger adoption click here, call 01278 783250 or e-mail Carolyn


ALL ABOUT BADGERS

Each year Secret World can care for up to 50 badger cubs. Most of them are found locally but many come from all other parts of the country because of the health protocol that the cubs receive prior to release. As each cub arrives, they are put into family groups and will remain in these groups and be released together as a unit.

To see this year's kitchen crews progress click here

Because we are very aware of the "badgers and TB" issue we have established a testing programme, approved by DEFRA, RSPCA and NFBG to ensure that any badgers we release are free from this disease. All the cubs undergo 3 separate blood tests, the only test available to ascertain whether a live badger has TB or not, they are tattooed and identichipped to give us some idea of post release success.

The help we need is with finding landowners with suitable sites to release badgers into. The location must be suitable for badgers and yet unoccupied; the terrain must be diggable, ideally with a vacant badger sett on it. There must be adequate foraging. Adjoining landowners need to be badger tolerant. There should not be any major roads near by. There must be no risk of persecution in the area of the site.

All potentially suitable sites will be thoroughly checked. Anyone wishing to participate in our badger rearing and release programme either with a donation or by providing a release site should please contact either Colin Seddon on 01278 793814 (E-MAIL colins@secretworld.org) or Pauline Kidner on 01278 783250 (E-MAIL enquiries@secretworld.org)

PS Can anyone who finds a tattooed badger, the tattoo being inside one or both of the hind legs, please contact the above.

[Adopt aBadger] [Badger fact file] [Protection of Badgers Act 1992] [Conservation]
[Badger rehabilitation] [Kitchen Crew] [Badger Protocol]

New Road, East Huntspill, Highbridge, Somerset TA9 3PZ, UK
Tel. : (44) (01278) 783250, Fax : (44) (01278) 793109
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Website by Dae Sasitorn, lastrefuge.co.uk
and Angie Barber, The Secret World Wildlife Rescue