Hedgehogs are already protected by law in the UK, but their nesting sites are still in danger. Housing estate developments invite fences built with cement bases that restrict hedgehogs from foraging, and preventing them from moving from one garden to the next, the Rural Services Network reports. Pauline Kidner from Secret World Wildlife Rescue said […]
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9 Things You Can Do Daily to Save Wildlife
Humans do not live on this planet alone. In fact, each and every species is an essential part of an ecosystem. It is our duty to protect them – especially as we are responsible for the disappearance of many wild animal and plant species. The statistics are terrifying. According to the World Wildlife Fund, around […]
Celebrity Animals : 5 Instagram accounts that have conquered the Internet
Instagram has long ceased to be an ordinary social network for sharing photos and communicating with friends. Now the platform is a big tangle of many mechanisms that are successfully used by entrepreneurs, blog authors and large companies. But among the million-strong audience of the social network, there are many people who go online to […]
New Zealand’s conservationists to eradicate predators like possums, rats, feral cats, and hedgehogs from Stewart Island
Conservationists in New Zealand are starting the biggest campaign in history to rid a populated island of imported predators. The conservation organization Predator Free Rakiura and the crown research center Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research have agreed to a four-year, $2.8 million partnership to eradicate predators like possums, rats, feral cats, and hedgehogs. The project will also […]
Nearly half of Britain’s biodiversity has gone since industrial revolution
Almost half of Britain’s natural biodiversity has disappeared over the centuries, with farming and urban spread triggered by the industrial and agricultural revolutions being blamed as major factors for this loss. That is the shock finding of a study by scientists at London’s Natural History Museum, which has revealed that the UK is one of […]
What you should NEVER feed hedgehogs – three top tips to helping wildlife
HEDGEHOGS are popular visitors to your garden with as many as 10 visiting a garden over several nights, so if you want to feed these friendly creatures what should you avoid? Hedgehogs are widespread throughout England and Wales. They prey on invertebrates and are known to eat amphibians, small rodents and birds. They eat several […]
Half of Britain’s Hedgehogs Have Disappeared, But There’s Still Hope
Conservationists are raising concerns about the plight of hedgehogs after finding that half the population has disappeared from the countryside in Britain over the past two decades. Despite the discouraging numbers, their advocates still believe there’s hope for their survival. By some estimates, there were more than 30 million hedgehogs in the UK in the […]
Our humble hedgehog is disappearing fast
They’ve been around for 15 million years; hedgehogs roamed Britain with mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers. But in a single lifetime the much-loved mammals have been driven towards extinction, their national population apparently plummeting more than thirtyfold. As Philip Larkin wrote in The Mower – a poem composed after he killed a hedgehog while cutting long […]