Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hedgehog populations across Europe have declined dramatically due to habitat loss, pesticides, roads, and changing land use, with ...

Hedgehog populations across Europe have declined dramatically due to habitat loss, pesticides, roads, and changing land use, with rural areas often hit hardest. Gardens and suburban green spaces now ...

Hedgehog birthing season is amongst us and one Oxfordshire ecologist has shared the top tips to help a baby hedgehog in need.

Despite their prickly exterior, European hedgehogs are extremely vulnerable. Populations have plummeted by 30 per cent over the last decade, leading to them being declared “near threatened” on the ...

Hedgehog birthing season is amongst us and one Oxfordshire ecologist has shared the top tips to help a baby hedgehog in need.

Sharon and Andy Longhurst’s kitchen opens onto what they call “the ICU”: a garage filled with heated incubators, microscopes and 12 hedgehogs fighting for their lives. “Never in a million years did we ...

European hedgehogs are in trouble. In an increasingly urbanized world, these spiny mammals often get hit by fast-moving cars—a modern hazard they haven’t evolved to avoid. But a newly discovered ...

Biodiversity, the rich variety of life found on Earth, is vanishing. I’m a conservation scientist keen to monitor this loss to better understand where efforts to reverse it will be most effective. And ...

Where the Noord/Zuidlijn now runs, hedgehogs once roamed freely. Last March, the Hedgehog Working Group from Amsterdam-Noord built a hedgehog burrow to give them safety and shelter. This article has ...

February 2, 2026, is International Hedgehog Day. While this occasion offers a moment to celebrate one of Europe's most beloved small mammals, sadly, it's also a much-needed opportunity to confront an ...