Some days ago I was contacted by my friend and colleague Sussie which is a biologist in Denmark. She asked if I knew a good place for a young badgar and I was lucky that I did. Sussi tells the short story about what happened before reintroduction of the badgar:
On June 12th two of my friends phoned me to tell that they had seen an injured badger cub at a den nearby. Later that evening we went to the badger den and found the cup curled up in the grass. Without difficulty we could throw the blanket that we had brought with us over the cub and lift it from the ground. The cub had severe bites and blood around its ears. It seemed week, although it struggled to escape the blanket and we decided to send it to one of the Danish Animal Aid stations/centers. The cub was treated by a vet and a closer look showed that the cub had bite-marks all over the body. Most probably the cub has been bitten by its littermates. Luckily the wounds healed quickly, and the cub regained its normal temper and shyness toward humans, and after 14 days treatment it was ready to be reintroduced to nature. Normally animals are reintroduced at the place where they were found, but in this case we considered it a bad idea to send the cub back to the family which for unknown reasons had mobbed and injured it.
I therefore contacted my dear friend Morten to help me find a suitable place to release the cub. Morten found a beautiful place in the country with old woods and meadows, far away from road traffic, a place where the badger could have a good chance to get a future. In addition, the property was owned by a family which was willing to invest some time in feeding the badger cub, which was now around 4 month of age, for some time until it was able to manage to find its own food.
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