Badger Watch – a feral badger exhibit at Paignton Zoo

Some feral badgers moved into a paddock in the zoo. Badgers setts are protected in England, and the hoof-stock normally in the paddock had to be taken out because of the danger if they fell into the setts. So the zoo started a seasonal evening ‘badger watch’, which proved a great success. It was critical to get the lighting design right to allow visitors to see while not disturbing the animals; these are wild, not zoo-bred animals.

Badger Watch opened in 2000, Simon Corder presented a paper describing this projects at the Sixth International Zoo Design Conference in 2004.

Client – Paignton Zoo
Lighting Design – Simon Corder
Photographs – (badgers) Bryan Raynes, Simon Corder

Badger Watch
Paignton Zoo