This module takes place in the classroom and out in the field.

To get your certificate of training, you must pass a written and practical assessment. Your course provider will send you your certificate.

Once you complete this course, you can apply to be listed as a cage trapper on a licence to take and mark badgers to enable vaccination to prevent the spread of bovine TB in cattle.

The licence holder must contact Natural England to add you to their licence as an ‘additional authorised person’ before you can start to set traps.

This module teaches you how to:

• look for badger field signs

• comply with the rules on badger trapping

• carry out fieldwork safely

• follow biosecurity guidelines when trapping

• estimate the number of traps to deploy

• understand where to site badger traps

• set traps

• pre-bait

• trapping welfare

• safely identify and release a previously vaccinated badger

This module does not teach you how to:

• carry out a field survey

• map read or produce survey maps

• mark badgers

• vaccinate badgers

This is a 1 day module that mainly takes place out in the field.

This module is not assessed. Your course provider will send you your attendance certificate.

This module teaches you how to:

• survey and identify badger field signs

• map read and produce survey maps

• carry out fieldwork safely

• follow biosecurity guidelines during surveying

• record badger sett activity and other field signs

• interpret survey maps

• survey different habitat types

It does not teach you how to:

• site traps or dig in

• set traps

• vaccinate

• apply for your licence

• comply with rules on trapping and vaccinating badgers

For Cheshire Badger Vaccination Programme Members.

Session objectives:

• Recall key legislation pertaining to badgers

• Follow H&S and biosecurity measures during surveying

• Identify key badger field signs and distinguish from other species

• Classify sett activity

• Interpret and sketch out survey maps

For Cheshire Badger Vaccination Programme Members.

Session objectives:

• Recall key legislation pertaining to badgers

• Follow H&S and biosecurity measures during surveying

• Identify key badger field signs and distinguish from other species

• Classify sett activity

• Interpret and sketch out survey maps