PROTECT THE WILD - HEDGEHOGS

View this email in your browser It’s Hedgehog Awareness Week, a time of the year to celebrate our favourite spiky mammal. But it’s also a time to reflect on the fact that their numbers are in serious decline. It’s no longer a common sight to see these shy little creatures moving slowly through our gardens. It’s estimated that there were some 30 million hedgehogs in Britain in the 1950s. By the 1990s, this number had plummeted to 1.5 million. In 2020 the hedgehog was added to the Red List for British mammals, listed as a creature at risk of extinction. The State of Britain’s Hedgehogs 2022 report found that the largest decline in the hedgehog population is in rural areas, whereas numbers in urban areas remain low but stable. The report shows “a loss of hedgehogs in rural areas nationally of between a third and three-quarters of the population in the last two decades. The largest declines are in the eastern half of England.” Click on the buttons below to be taken to our website where you can find out the primary causes for their decline along with practical things we can all do to protect our wild hedgehogs. Find out how to help hedgehogs Adopt a hedgehog SUPPORT OUR WORK If you'd like to support our on-going work and help us build a more compassionate future for wildlife, you can do so by donating or adopting.  Copyright © 2023 PROTECT THE WILD LTD, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. Our mailing address is: PROTECT THE WILD LTD 71-75 Shelton Street Covent Garden London, London WC2H 9JQ United Kingdom Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.