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Julia Hammett is Chair of Oxfordshire Badger Group, a charity celebrating and protecting the badgers of Oxfordshire. Recorded live at Wytham Woods at the Group's first meeting after lockdown, Julia discusses the threats facing local badgers and the group's vaccination programme against bovine TB.

Wytham Woods is an ancient semi-natural woodland, which has been owned and maintained by the University of Oxford since 1942.  Its 1000 acres are a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest and are one of the most researched pieces of woodland in the world, exceptionally rich in flora and fauna, with over 500 species of plants, a wealth of woodland habitats (with numerous well-studied badger setts), and 800 species of butterflies and moths 

•  Oxfordshire Badger Group  website and Twitter feed 
• Wytham Woods website