Thursday, April 27, 2017

Badgers nearly cut off UK town from the outside world

A badger looks for food at the British Wildlife Centre in Lingfield, southern England July 21, 2011. Environmental groups, including the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), have voiced their opposition to plans by Britain's government to begin culling wild badgers in order to combat bovine tuberculosis in England's cattle herds.
REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth (BRITAIN - Tags: ANIMALS ENVIRONMENT) - RTR2P4GB


Some burrowing badgers settled in and made tunnels under the only road leading to a small British town, triggering a large sinkhole and threatening to trap some people inside the village.
For now, any cars or trucks wider than an average cement mixer truck cannot travel along that road to Shingle Street until engineers can install a “micro-bridge,” the East Anglian Daily Times reported.
Still, folks in the seaside village can't kill the badgers, which reportedly are a protected species there. It also means drivers heading over the tunnels would need to tread carefully.
People should be able to drive freely over the new bridge Thursday once it's set up, according to the report.
Shingle Street is a three-hour drive northeast of London.

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