Bad Badgers!

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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1115736,00.html
Tunnelling badgers endanger Britain's trove of hidden relics.
The secrets of how the ancient ancestors of modern Britons lived and died could be lost forever because the evidence is being destroyed by badgers.

Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire has harboured the mysteries of civilisations for more than 5,500 years, making it one of Europe's most treasured archaeological sites.
Blah blah!

Another excuse to exterminate the Badger population!
I have seen the damage they have done to the Wansdyke as they have been driven out of the fields.
How come the CA don't get all dressed up and chase
Badgers as well as Foxes?
Countryside management my Arse!
PeteG

Awwww poor Badgers! They are just doing what badgers do best. Maybe they could just ask them to leave! Have to be polite to badgers or they can get stroppy!! :o)

This is terrible, I like badgers and I don't want to join the CA...

I wonder if this would work
http://www.martleyelectronics.co.uk/pestcontrol.html#sonic

According to a bloke I spoke to a few months ago, the badgers who are currently digging out one of the North East's few remaining barrows do so in order to remove soiled bedding.
"They're very clean animals" quoth he, "They clean out their beds every day"
If this is why badgers keep digging, despite having large enough setts, perhaps all those who say they're going to end up out of work if hunting with dogs is banned could be employed to replace the bedding in badger sets. The badgers wouldn't need to keep digging, the CA is slightly happier and the heritage is not going to get as wrecked.
The obvious problems such as: "how do you change badger bedding without disturbing the sleeping badger?" and "How do you get in there in the first place?" could be solved by spurious genetic modification of hunt attendants to make them very small, with extra enzymes coded in to make them smell like badger chambermaids.

If I was a badger, I'd be happier digging in a nice newly created pile of earth specially prepared a good distance away from the nasty old piles of earth which would get all spooky due to Nigel's mole scarers.

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/environment/html/features/_fspapers/fs_badger1.htm

Each badger costs 3000 pounds apiece to relocate! Bless their furry socks, I love them!