Since our decision to cover the Goole area, we have built some useful contacts and helped a number of individuals who have approached us for advice, including:

Badgers in a horses field. Was it badgers or was it rabbits?  Well following our site visit, we confirmed it was both, but the area in question was definitely rabbit.

Power lines over a large active badger sett with huge trees interferring with the power lines causing loss of electricity to a household.  This was a difficult one as tempers, quite understandably, were running high, but working with the farmer, Natural England and the Power Company, a solution was reached, the encroaching trees were cut and the badger sett beneath the trees, carefully monitored.

Earlier in the year we discovered one of our monitored setts had been extensively dug.  We notified Humberside Police who attended very quickly.  We notified the landowners and asked if they could discuss this serious incident with their tenant farmer.  

This sett has been targeted again, this time in July when weed killer was thrown over it.  Humberside Police have been notified once more, images taken, and our records updated to include this latest incident.

Just a few miles from this dug sett, yet another backfilled sett has been discovered, yet again beside a dyke.  

So as you can see, for badgers in Goole, we are making a difference - and as more sett monitors join us and complete our training programme, we will be able to cover more setts and help more badgers stay safe.