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Species

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.
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Hedgehogs with Hodmedods

This link will open on the Norfolk Wildlife Trust website.

Learn about hedgehog behaviour and how to make your garden hedgehog-friendly with Julia from Hodmedods Hedgehog Support.

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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!
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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.
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Wild families: Happy hedgehogs

This link will open on the Suffolk Wildlife Trust website.

Have fun discovering all about hedgehogs and how we can help them.

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Wild Exchanges: A Home for Hedgehogs

This link will open on the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust website.

Discover how to help hedgehogs thrive – one sighting, one survey, and one garden at a time!

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Hibernating Hedgehogs

This link will open on the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust website.

Join us this half term for some outdoor fun!

Action

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.