Badger Watch
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
