Sir – Not a lot of people know this — there are two badger setts near the Oxford railway station, quite close to the city centre.

This I thought would be something to be treasured, but not so! The local allotment society has been evicting a sett (using electric fence and one-way gates), pushing them on to university land.

More recently the university have closed up their sett, thus pushing the badgers back on to the allotments.

This raises many issues: do each group know of the other’s actions? Why is there such a hostile attitude to precious wild creatures? Will these badgers survive (especially the juveniles)? Will there be other effects of displacing them elsewhere?

The legislation protecting wildlife is again shown to be inadequate. Natural England have more literature on removing badgers than on protecting them. New Government ideas on faster, easier development will make these events more common in future.

As written recently in national papers, the wildlife of this country has no strong voice in its defence and we need people to speak out about the continuing disappearance of our natural world.

Mike Hamblett, Summertown