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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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.
Worcestershire's Hedgehogs
There are 95% fewer hedgehogs now than there were in the 1950s and some experts predict they could be extinct in the next ten years! We need your help to find out how Worcestershire's hedgehogs are doing...
Creating a community of hedgehogs
Connor takes a closer look at how, by connecting gardens and green spaces, communities of people can create communities of hedgehogs...
Our Wildlife Heroes 2018
In August 2018 we announced our first Wildlife Heroes and held our first Wildlife Hero ceremony...
Wild about hedgehogs
Learn more about our prickly pals and how you can help them where you are.
What to feed hedgehogs and badgers
Putting out a bit of food can help see mammals like hedgehogs through colder spells.
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.
Hedgerow
Hedgerows are one of our most easily encountered wildlife habitats, found lining roads, railways and footpaths, bordering fields and gardens and on the coast.
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