{"id":652894,"date":"2025-12-24T19:19:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T19:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/652894\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T19:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T19:19:13","slug":"sett-to-over-road-damaged-by-burrowing-badgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/652894\/","title":{"rendered":"Sett-to over road damaged by burrowing badgers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northlincs.gov.uk\/news\/outrageous-road-rebuild-blocked-until-july-to-protect-handful-of-badgers-villagers-stuck-with-36-mile-detour\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his initial comments, external<\/a> on Tuesday, Waltham said: &#8220;It is frankly outrageous that protections affecting a handful of badgers during mating season mean six months of total inaction on a failing road<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;An entire village is left to live with danger, disruption and the slow erosion of its local services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We respect the importance of protecting wildlife, but the current situation has tipped completely out of balance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">NE said the badger breeding season ran from 1 December to 30 June, during which time sows were pregnant, giving birth or raising cubs underground, making them highly vulnerable to disturbance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the spokesperson added: &#8220;In exceptional circumstances, we can grant extensions to licences. We will be discussing next steps with North Lincolnshire Council in the new year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Wednesday, Waltham said he looked forward to working with NE in the new year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his initial comments, external on Tuesday, Waltham said: &#8220;It is frankly outrageous that protections affecting a handful&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-652894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}