• Badgers dig deep burrows in sandy hills, forest gullies, and valleys. Burrows are located on slopes.
• The badger lives in deep burrows that are passed down from generation to generation. Some of these burrows, research has shown, are several thousand years old.
• Badger setts can be used for generations and contain hundreds of metres of tunnels.
• One sett in England contained more than 300 metres of tunnels.

The European badger is found within the Palearctic biogeographical region and inhabits several ecosystems, including Celtic broadleaf forests, broadleaf forests of Western Europe, coniferous forests of the Cilian Mountains, Balkan mixed forests, Baltic mixed forests, and European Atlantic mixed forests.