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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European hedgehog
These beloved spiny mammals come out at night to hoover up beetles, worms and other invertebrates.
Hedgehog Walk
Are you and your little ones ready to make a difference for wildlife? This spring, The Wildlife Trusts invites you to join The Hedgehog Walk! From 30th March to 30th April, take on the challenge of walking 3km while fundraising for wildlife along the way. With the support of Aardman and your favorite Timmy Time characters, you’ll not only enjoy the outdoors but also help create a safer world for hedgehogs, badgers, and more. Pre-register today to be the first to hear when sign up opens.
Hedgehog Awareness Week
This week is all about spreading the word about hedgehogs, our spiky little garden friends who are sadly disappearing from our countryside at an alarming rate.
The Great Big Hedgehog Quiz
Rowena Millar, Cornwall Wildlife Trust's (currently Non-Roving) Wildlife Reporter, has adopted the role of wildlife Christmas quizmaster for her latest blog. How many questions can you answer…
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.
The Super(Sonic) powers of the Hedgehog
Each week during the period of social distancing, we will be delving into past and present issues of Wild Cornwall magazine to bring you our favourite articles.
Cornwall's hedgehogs are disappearing - you can help them
You can probably remember when they were a familiar sight at night in gardens and hedgerows but that’s a fast-fading memory, as hedgehog numbers have halved in the countryside in the last 20 years…
Five things we found out about hedgehogs at 'Wildlife Matters LIVE: Operation Hedgehog update'
Hedgehogs are easy to love. With their curious, snuffly faces and habit of rolling into a ball when things get too much, it’s certainly not hard to understand why they’ve repeatedly been voted as…
A garden for hedgehogs in spring
One of the highlights of last summer for me was regularly finding a hedgehog (which I imaginatively called Hedgey) and a larger hedgehog (Hodge) in our garden late on summer evenings.
Purging buckthorn
An uncommon hedgerow and woodland tree of central and eastern England, purging buckthorn displays yellow-green flowers in spring, and poisonous, black berries in autumn.