Hedgehog Awareness Week
We hope you enjoyed Hedgehog Awareness Week! Did you know that hedgehogs have been around for tens of millions of years? From Shakespeare’s Furze-pigs to Mrs Tiggy-Winkle or Sonic, hedgehogs have been beloved in...
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Trees for Life’s Red Squirrel Reintroduction Project
The red squirrel is one of our most charismatic native animals – an iconic inhabitant of the woodlands that it helps to propagate as it goes about its business of collecting nuts and seeds....
Don’t Step on a Bee Day!
Yep, that’s a real thing! ‘Don’t Step on a Bee Day‘ aims to raise awareness of our native bees and how much we depend on them. We actually have hundreds of types of bees...
Bycatch of Dolphins and Whales
Accidental entanglement in fishing nets and gear is the biggest global threat to whales, dolphins and porpoises. In the fishing industry ‘Bycatch’ is the accidental capture of non-target species, which can include anything from...
Help Raise Money For MCS With Natracare
The Marine Conservation Society is a UK charity which looks after the shores, seas and marine wildlife, they aim to secure the future of living seas an save the threatened marine life before it’s...
Our Hedgehogs are in Danger!
This winter, Hedgehogs need our help more than ever. Due to an unusually warm summer Hedgehogs have given birth to a third litter rather than the usual two, and the lateness of these births...
World Wildlife Day
Today is the inaugural World Wildlife Day, designated by the United Nations to: Celebrate the many beautiful and varied forms of wild fauna and flora; Recall...
Would a resident hedgehog drive up your gas bill?
Fact of the week: The hedgehog population in the UK was an estimated 30 million strong in the 1950s. This has now fallen to less than 1 million. I hadn’t realised that hedgehog comfort was...
Sleepy hedgehogs need water!
Spring is here and the warmth of the sun is creeping into the nests of hedgehogs across the country and waking them up from a long hibernation! They will be in desperate need of...
National Nest Box Week
National Nest Box Week is upon us! We’re being encouraged across the nation to put nest boxes in our gardens for Blue Tits, Great Tits, Sparrows and Robins. But what about our larger bird...
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