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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Operation Hedgehog Volunteers
The UK’s favorite mammal needs your help. Hedgehogs are now classed as vulnerable to extinction. If we don't act now, they could be lost forever. Why not volunteer your time to help this red…
Why native mammals need YOUR help in Cornwall
As another winter approaches, Cornwall Wildlife Trust has turned its attention to helping the wild mammals of woodlands, farmland, open moors, heaths and gardens. Cornwall’s wild mammals face many…
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…
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.
Mammal Magic in Spring
Spring is a great time to spot wildlife including our mammals! At this time of year, badger and fox cubs are starting to come above ground, hedgehogs are very active in the garden and bats have…
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.
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.
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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…