Result of badger survey: slightly rising trend in population number

Photo: Tarmo Mikussaar
Posted by the Animal of the Year team 09.12.2016
This year the first badger monitoring in Estonia took place. It was an important enterprise with regard to the animal of the year. In the beginning of the year we did not know the status of the badger population. It could be guessed that badgers were not too badly off since they are observed here and there all the time, but nothing more precise than a conjecture could be stated until now. Since there is no great hunting interest in badgers data collected by hunters are not available either.