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How to help the humble hedgehog this Hedgehog Awareness Week
It’s Hedgehog Awareness Week from 30 April to 6 May! Considered a gardener’s best friend, this is a great time of year to make local hedgehogs feel at home in your green space.
European hedgehog
Considered a gardener’s best friend, hedgehogs will happily hoover up insects roaming in vegetable beds. Famously covered in spines, hedgehogs like to eat all sorts of bugs and crunchy beetles.…
When was the last time you saw a hedgehog?
Hedgehogs as we know them today have lived here for at least half a million years. Now in drastic decline, they’re facing some serious challenges, particularly in rural areas. However, they are…
Mrs Tiggywinkle leads the hedgehog way
I will never forget the first night in my new house seeing a mother hedgehog and her three babies walking across my lawn.
How to create a hedgehog hole
Help hedgehogs get around by making holes and access points in fences and barriers to link up the gardens in your neighbourhood.
How to build a hedgehog home
By providing safe places for hedgehogs to live, you’re much more likely to see these prickly creatures in your garden.
How to check your bonfire for hedgehogs
We can all take steps to protect hedgehogs on bonfire night. Follow our 4 steps to make sure you keep hedgehogs safe.
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Team Wilder hedgehogs
Wildlife Trusts call for urgent action for insects, as new report reveals true impacts of unnoticed invertebrate apocalypse
A new report, Insect Declines and Why They Matter, commissioned by a group of Wildlife Trusts in the south west has revealed conclusively that drastic declines in insect numbers look set to have…