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.
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!
Wild Families: Helping hedgehogs
This link will open on the Suffolk Wildlife Trust website.
A family session to explore and take action for nature, ages 5+: Hedgehog Awareness Week special!
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.
Happy Hedgehogs at Summer Leys
This link will open on the WildlifeBCN website.
Learn all about hedgehogs and how you can help them in your garden or local area, decorate a hedgehog highway sign and feeding bowl, and make a footprint tunnel to monitor hedgehogs at home
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.
Wilder Communities - Hedgehogs, their ecology and how to help these prickly customers
This link will open on the Norfolk Wildlife Trust website.
Join us to find out what you can do to help Britain's favourite mammal
Wild Families: Hedgehogs
This link will open on the Suffolk Wildlife Trust website.
A hedgehog themed family session to celebrate Hedgehog Awareness Week.
Hibernating Hedgehogs
This link will open on the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust website.
Join us this half term 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.
What to feed hedgehogs and badgers
Putting out a bit of food can help see mammals like hedgehogs through colder spells.