Oxfordshire Badger Group
*** Registered Charity No. 1186850 ***
24 Jan 2020 website updating - please be patient !

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COVID19: Badger Trust guidance to Badger Groups

OBG is following guidance issued by the Badger Trust. We will continue to operate and ensure our activities and those of volunteers comply with government guidance on social distancing.

OBG badger vaccination and all face to face meetings are on hold for the foreseeable future.

OBG will continue to provide a badger rescue service where possible to do so safely and providing our local wildlife hospitals and veterinary practices have capacity

Please continue to report any badger road traffic accidents or other sightings. This can include sett survey and monitoring carried out during your permitted daily exercise.

Obviously we will all need to comply fully with any additional restrictions that may be announced in future.

Over the next few days we will be updating the members section of this website to make more resources and information available to you all.

Please check back regularly

Linda Ward, 05 Apr 2020.

Link to Badger Trust COVID19 Guidance

Botley Climate Emergency event report

Botley Badgers Rule OK ! (Held 29th February 2020)

Poster on how to help badgers in climate change

Botley badgers threats from climate change

Met lots of lovely people trying to save the planet. Here for your interest are our posters. It was fun and thought provoking to reflect on our own experience showing how one of Britain's top mammals is vulnerable to climate extremes.

OBG Registered Charity Number 1186850

Oxfordshire Badger Group was added to the Register of Charities just before Christmas.

Our Aims are:

to promote, for the public benefit, the conservation and protection of badgers, their setts and habitats in Oxfordshire and elsewhere; and
to advance the education of the public on the ecology, behaviour and protected status of badgers, their setts and habitats

Busy times ahead as we look to fundraise for the first full year of vaccination and adjust to our new charity status !

Seacourt covered....by water and by the press !

The work to build the Park and Ride Extension at Seacourt was flooded for over 3 weeks during November. The builders (and the Seacourt badgers) retreated to higher land. We took the opportunity to remind Oxford City Council that it was unwise to build on an active floodplain. Work on the site was stalled for over 8 weeks this winter - pity the poor commuters when it finally comes on line in October 2020.

OBG quoted in Oxford Mail

OBG Membership provides volunteers with public liability insurance while taking part in our activities.

It now costs £12.00 per household per year. Of this £2 is used to secure Groups' full membership of the Badger Trust.

Interested in a members event? Contact us for more details or join or renew on the day.

Big shout of thanks to Julia Hammett for 25 years service to OBG

Julia Hammett was 1st mentioned in OBG Dispatches in November 1994 . Our current Chair is tireless and inspirational in her committent to the badger cause.

Oxford University's WildCRU: The laboratory with leaves: Badger Project at
Wytham Woods

WildCRU’s Badger Project has collected a wealth of fundamental ecological data for over 30 years. Visit their website for a fascinating insight into badger socio-ecology.

They made a great presentation at this year's Badger Trust Symposium. Grateful to Wytham for supporting OBG activities - it is a great resource rto have on our doorstep.

Wytham Woods (Ox Univ site)

Badger Trust release new guidance for developers

OBG is pleased to have taken delivery of 2 copies.

OBG needs to know where badgers are to help them

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