currentsinbiology:Hedgehog Population Declining in UK: Conservationists Call On Homeowners For HelpH
currentsinbiology:Hedgehog Population Declining in UK: Conservationists Call On Homeowners For HelpHedgehogs – those adorable, tiny, spiny-furred critters that are becoming increasingly popular as pets are need of some assistance. Since 2003, hedgehog populations have been declining drastically throughout the UK as a result of garden pesticide use and the destruction of their shrubby homes as homeowners continue to replace local floral with fences. As part of a campaign known as Hedgehog Street, homeowners across the UK are being asked to build makeshift houses and to cut holes in their fences to keep hedgehogs from being isolated and to make it easier for them to feed and mate. Holes about the size of a music CD are enough for a hedgehog to get through a fence, reports the Daily Mail. -- source link
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