WOULD YOU LIKE TO JOIN US AND TRAIN TO BECOME A SETT MONITOR?
Then please read on and discover what being a sett monitor involves:-
MONITORING BADGER SETTS
Do you love badgers and wish to protect them?
Do you love nature and the great outdoors?
Can you record information accurately?
Do you wish to be part of a very pro-active group?
Do you have a reasonable level of fitness to walk to setts?
Can you be polite and calm in a difficult situation?
If the answer is YES to all of the above, then becoming a sett monitor may be right up your street.
WHAT IS A SETT MONITOR?
Sett monitors visit their chosen sett or setts on a regular basis, recording any changes or disturbance to the sett. This is then typed up on Selby and Goole Badger Watch's survey form. They also take images and store those images in an appropriate file where they can be easily found if and when they are ever needed. Unfortunately, setts can be destroyed and attacked, so if that happens, it has to be recorded too and information passed to the Wildlife Crime Officers and various other Agencies.
Of course, surveying a badger sett correctly, identifying the signs of current use requires a certain degree of knowledge and expertise. But we are NOT badger experts. There are only a few people in the Yorkshire and Humberside area who would be accepted in a court of law as an "Expert Witness". Our findings, our surveys, our images will all assist the Wildlife Crime Officers should the sett be attacked or destroyed. But it has to be done correctly. Badgers can move around. They can leave en masse from what was a very active sett with all signs of current use and move suddenly to another sett within their territory. This should be recorded to keep our records up to date. It is our recommendation that anyone who joins us reads the book "BADGER" by Timothy Roper.
OTHER WAYS TO HELP
If you feel becoming a Sett Monitor isn't for you, but you would still like to help, please do get in touch.
The Selby and Goole Badger Group are welcoming and inclusive, so please, if you have any ideas or suggestions to help our group, do get in touch, it would be lovely to hear from you.
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