Here you can learn more about the hazards hedgehogs face both natural and man made.
A garden fork stuck thoughtlessly into a compost heap
or haystack can kill or maim a nesting hedgehog.
Garden strimmers kill or maim many hedgehogsevery year.
Hedgehogs that fall through the bars of a cattle grid can climb to safety if you have already placed a ramp in the chamber below.
Drains can become traps if the lid is removed or broken.
Don't use chemicals in your garden even if they claim to
be harmless to wildlife*.
*there is a campain to have the hedgehog images removed from the above product after the slug pellets were
found to be just as harmful to wildlife as any other product containing metaldehyde or methocarb. Also the slugs which had eaten the pellets were just as poisonus to hedgehogs!
We should all slow down for wildlife on the roads!
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Hedgehog Hazards
