Teachers : Badgers

This project looks at how Badgers are moved to safety before construction work commences. The information given is an example from the Channel Tunnel Rail Link project.

Students can:

• Listen to the talk about protecting wildlife and in particular moving Badger Setts to safety.
• Design a new Badger Sett and plan how it would be implemented.
• Write stories about what it would be like be a Badger involved in being moved.

Resources:

• Talk by David Collins about moving Badger Setts – Transcribed
• Description and diagrams of a new Badger Sett
• Photographs of building a new Badger Sett

With thanks to Union Railways, builders of High Speed 1 (The Channel Tunnel Rail Link).