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1.1 What is badger fencing?
Badger fencing is a wire mesh barrier system designed to keep badgers in or out of a specific area. It is manufactured from a high tensile wire that exceeds European Standards for tensile strength and is the approved badger fencing material for the Highways Agency.

1.2 Information relating to badger fencing
There can be conflict between badgers and humans at other levels. Individuals may find that badgers whose territory includes their gardens may find significant damage to lawns and plants as badgers forage for worms, grubs, larvae in lawns and plant bulbs in beds. Developers and civil engineers may find that badgers stand between themselves and successful completion of a building or infrastructure project. The protection afforded to badgers and their setts by the Protection of Badgers Act 1992, requires that where setts fall within the boundaries of a development and these setts may be disturbed by said development, the sett may have to be closed and the site fenced off from badgers. This has to be undertaken under the control of a licence granted by the Department for Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). The licence pre-determines the actions that can be taken to move the badgers from the area. Normally this will involve the closure of existing setts using one way badger gates, followed by physical destruction of the setts once the licence holder, usually an ecologist, is sure that there are no badgers still in the sett. This is done using foot print traps to monitor activity. Fencing is also used to prevent badger movement onto development sites. These can be used in conjunction with measures to close the sett, with one way gates inserted in the fence where the fence intersects obvious badger paths, or it can be used as a standalone technique to ensure that where badgers are found close by to the boundary of development sites, they do not move onto the site. This work also needs to undertaken under licence with the licence being held by an appropriately qualified person. The design of a badger fence will normally be specified in the licence application. Badger fences of all designs have two main features common to them. A wire mesh fence that is part buried underground and part exposed , robust enough to prevent the passage of a badger (they are surprisingly strong), and a supporting structure for the above ground section. This normally consists of a wooden post and rail fence. While a number of differing specifications exist for such a fence, perhaps the most widely accepted in England and Wales is that provided by the Highways Agency.