why is the badger law in place?

Answer 1

To stop the otters and squirrels from forming gangs and smuggling nuts!


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Badger's rule (′baj·ərz ′rül)
(physical chemistry) An empirical relationship between the stretching force constant for a molecular bond and the bond length.


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Answer 2

To protect the Badger from being bated, and also from becoming extinct through their natural habitat being destroyed through redevelopment.

Badgers get the blame for carrying T.B although they probably catch it from the cows.

I live in a rural location where there are many badger sets and you often find Badgers lying at the side of the road as if they had been run over, but on examination they have either been shot or poisoned.

Gamekeepers go out at night "Lamping" and this is when most Badgers are killed but everyone turns a blind eye,

The previous gamekeeper where I live was raided by the police who found a badger with a self tightening trap on in his house plus poisons that were banned over 20 years ago. He went to court and got off free.
So much for the Badger Law.

Answer 3

There are laws in place to protect badgers for a couple of reasons. One is that people aren't very good at managing resources. Everyone thinks that their reason for doing something is important and leaves it up to others to conserve whats left. Then at some point everyone looks around and realises something disappeared.
Plus generally people disagree with things like badger baiting, 'male chicken' fighting, bull baiting and dog fighting. It would be odd if you hung around a slaughterhouse for kicks and I guess most people see baiting in the same way.
Badgers carry bovine TB but there is some debate whether they just catch it from cows or also pass it back to them. Recent research showd that badgers use a corner of a field as a latrine and experiments were going on to see if fencing off this corner cut down the rate of bovine TB. If badgers in a sett are found to be infected thay can be exterminated under licence.

Answer 4

The original act protected the badger but not its home, the badger sett, but further legislation encompassed in the Protection of Badgers Act of 1992 makes it an offence to damage, destroy, obstruct access to, or an entrance of a badger sett, cause a dog to enter a sett, or disturb a badger when it is occupying a sett.There are certain exemptions relating to the blocking of a badger sett entrances by fox hunts and strict conditions are laid down as to the manner in which this is carried out. DEFRA and English Nature are the only authorities able to issue licences for various operations affecting badgers and their setts, such as housing developments, agriculture, forestry, control of foxes etc. In addition courts are now empowered to make an order for the destruction or disposal of a dog, or disqualify the offender from having custody of a dog, where a dog was used or present at the commission of an offence under S.1 or S.2 of the Badgers Act 1992.

Answer 5

Because it gave us the power to issue BadgerASBOs and BadgerJayWalking tickets. Obviously!!!!

Answer 6

I think they carry some sort of disease, so its probably in place to stop that getting out of control.

Answer 7

I hope you're not condoning badger baiting..if you are you are sick!

Answer 8

Hello,
because it is illegal to harm or kill them and also illegal to wreck their homesites with manpower or dogs, please leave them alone, and I promise they will never hurt you or wreck your home either