RSPB Spotlight Hedgehogs by James Lowen

Author:James Lowen
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781472950079
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

November Any Hedgehogs you encounter out and about this month are likely to be young animals or those in poor health, engaged in a last-ditch attempt to avoid admitting defeat. Other Hedgehogs should already be hibernating.

December Almost all is quiet in the Hedgehog world. Hibernation is the order of the day, week and month, with only occasional sallies into consciousness.

Threats and Conservation

Throughout western Europe, you hear the same story. Middle-aged people fondly remember Hedgehogs mooching around their childhood gardens, yet haven’t seen a live one for many years. Their children know Hedgehogs only in theory or in representation – Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, say, or Sonic – but have never clapped eyes on the real thing, except as an occasional spiky pancake littering the gutter. But how bad are the threats that Hedgehogs face? Who is doing what to save them? And, more controversially, are Hedgehogs ever the ‘bad guys’ in conservation terms?

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