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.…
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Help a hedgehog
What to do if you spot a hedgehog out in daylight, how to check your bonfire for hedgehogs and how to create a hedgehog house in your garden.
Hedgehog
It’s time to invest in the natural world. Time to start replanting the woodlands that have been destroyed and begin connecting up the wetlands, grasslands and meadows that we have cut scars into. Today we must demand better protection for wildlife and wild spaces so that hedgehogs can roam and barn owls can thrive once again.
Adopt a hedgehog
Searching for an original gift for a nature lover? Sponsor a hedgehog with the Wildlife Trusts to help fund conservation efforts. Perfect for adults and children!
The British Hedgehog
This link will open on the Surrey Wildlife Trust website.
Discover why hedgehogs are Britain's most beloved mammal.
Talk: The Suffolk Hedgehog Hospital
This link will open on the Suffolk Wildlife Trust website.
This presentation by the Suffolk Hedgehog Hospital will outline the work they do to help these beloved but increasingly scarce creatures. Come along and learn about hedgehogs and what you too…
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 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.
The British Hedgehog - PM session
This link will open on the Surrey Wildlife Trust website.
Discover why this is the most beloved British mammal.
Return of the hedgehogs
We all love hedgehogs, but climate change, habitat loss and pollution are all big threats to the species, and unless we act, hedgehogs could eventually go extinct. To draw attention to this prickly fact, we’ve teamed up with local people to place 50 hedgehog sculptures around Epsom and Ewell. We want to help people imagine a world where hedgehogs have bounced back to their former glory!
Helping hedgehogs
This link will open on the Cumbria Wildlife Trust website.
Find out how to help hedgehogs as they start to stir from their winter hibernation.
Saving hedgehogs
Hedgehogs have declined dramatically in recent decades and are considered vulnerable. Wildlife Trusts across the UK are working hard to turn things around.