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.
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.
Election leaflet error
It recently came to our attention that an election leaflet being delivered for James Heappey, the Conservative candidate in the Wells constituency, has an image of a Somerset Wildlife Trust…
How to help hedgehogs
Advice from the Wildlife Trusts on everything you need to know about how to help hedgehogs in your garden.
Somerset wildlife trust launches major campaign to enlist ‘hedgehog heroes’ across the county
Homes for Hedgehogs launches to help halt the dramatic decline of one of the UK’s most charismatic and best-loved species.
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.
New report reveals hedgehogs, yellowhammers and dragonflies at risk post-EU Exit
New report reveals that there are no clear plans on how regulation gaps will be plugged to protect nature.
Build a home for wildlife
Learn how to give wildlife a home in your garden. We have tips for building bird and bat boxes, hedgehog homes and more!