Hedgehog Awareness Week

Hedgehog Awareness Week is organised by the British Hedgehog Preservation Society and takes place every year. It aims to highlight the problems hedgehogs face and how you can help them.

This year they are asking people to ‘Welcome Wildlife!’ by creating a space for wildlife in your own gardens or green spaces and encouraging landowners such as schools and councils to do the same.

There are also lots of lovely hedgehog-friendly features that can be added to make a place more welcoming to hedgehogs:

• Hedgehog highways
• Feeding stations
• Log piles, leaf piles or wild corners
• Ponds or pools are great for wildlife but do ensure there are escape routes
• Hedgehog homes

Hedgehog Street encourages Hedgehog Champions to make hedgehog homes and feeding stations, support hedgehog highways and encourage their neighbours to join in.

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