The American badger can be found in grasslands, forest clearings, and agricultural lands where the soils are easy to dig and they have access to key prey species such as the Columbian ground squirrel.
Badgers are an important species because their place at the top of the food chain helps to keep other populations in check, and their abandoned burrows provide homes for many other species, including the endangered burrowing owl.
Badgers are at risk from human development from highways, farming and industrialization which disrupt the ecosystems, resources, and safe passage corridors that badgers rely on. The biggest threat to the Simpcwúl̓ecw population is individual badgers being hit by vehicles on roads.
Watch this video to learn more about badgers and what the Simpcw Natural Resource Department is doing to assess badger populations and mitigate road mortalities.
Simpcw First Nation
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