Badgers are a protected species. Developers may want to kill them but that is illegal. Even working close to a badger sett is illegal without a licence.
Plans that are available to the public are not even permitted to show locations of badger setts in order to protect them.
I’m not saying their protection is absolute, like say a persons, but it does require parliamentary legislation to make a cull legal. I’m not in favor of culls btw as I don’t believe they work in terms of TB in cattle.
The original post made the claim that only domesticated animals are protected by law and that’s clearly incorrect.
