Scottish Badgers brings together individuals and groups from across Scotland to promote the study, conservation and protection of Scotland’s badgers, their setts and natural habitats. Together we seek to encourage tolerance and appreciation of badgers by offering information, advice and guidance to all.
Scottish Badgers is the only charity dedicated to the study, conservation and protection of badgers that operates in Scotland.
Be Involved
Scottish Badgers works to protect badgers, their setts and natural habitats. Badgers face multiple threats in the modern world, whether it be through high numbers of road casualties, deliberate badger persecution, or sett damage as a result of development, forestry and agricultural works. We do all this with a small but dedicated team of volunteers and contractors.
Want to help? Sending records of sightings, whether in your garden or dead at the side of the road, all help in learning about their populations and distributions.
Earn Your Stripes
‘Earn your Stripes – building skills to champion wildlife’ is a skills development project in partnership with the Scottish Wildlife Trust, supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Through a series of sessions from wildlife tracking to practical conservation and championing wildlife, young people develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to help them thrive in work and life.
Latest News
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Scottish Badgers has won the Health & Wellbeing Award at RSPB Scotland’s Nature of Scotland Awards 2023. The winning project ‘Whispers from the Woods & Wilds’ was an inclusive, trauma-informed nature connection and wellbeing project for refugees… Read more: Scottish Badgers Wins at RSPB Nature of Scotland Awards - A full ban on snares – one small step for humankind, one huge step for animal welfare
Gillian Martin, Minister for Energy and Environment, confirmed in a letter to the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee on 9th November that she plans to introduce a full ban on the use of snares in the Wildlife… Read more: A full ban on snares – one small step for humankind, one huge step for animal welfare