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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Wilder Communities - Hedgehog Street: Taking action for hedgehogs
This link will open on the Norfolk Wildlife Trust website.
Join us for an online presentation with Grace Johnson (Hedgehog Street) on UK hedgehog conservation and how you can help locally.
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.
Wilder Communities -Hedgehogs, their ecology, and how to help these prickly customers
This link will open on the Norfolk Wildlife Trust website.
Learn what makes hedgehogs unique, the threats they face, and practical ways you can help support their survival.
Wilder Communities -Hedgehogs, their ecology, and how to help these prickly customers
This link will open on the Norfolk Wildlife Trust website.
Learn what makes hedgehogs unique, the threats they face, and practical ways you can help support their survival.
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!
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.
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.
Hibernating Hedgehogs (4+)
This link will open on the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust website.
Join us this October for some outdoor fun!
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.
What to feed hedgehogs and badgers
Putting out a bit of food can help see mammals like hedgehogs through colder spells.