A European badger in Sheffield, England, eats apples in urban garden. Photograph by Paul Hobson, Nature Picture Library Because badgers are active at night and are difficult to count, it’s not ...

Meles meles, the European badger, is indigenous to the United Kingdom, lives in an underground labyrinth of tunnels called a sett, and feeds on worms and grubs. There are about 300,000 badgers in ...

A badger appearing to admire a Banksy - of a badger ... everything came together perfectly on the tenth night as the owl made ...

As the pilot badger culls in Somerset and Gloucestershire enter the final weeks, Helen Briggs joins a group of campaigners who carry out night patrols to rescue any wounded badgers. It's 19:00 in ...

Many of their features and attributes are perfectly captured by one of our foremost contemporary poets, Michael Longley who in his poem Badger writes of how, with the ‘Night’s silence around ...