Well they are rather important visitors to our gardens ...........
- Make CD-sized holes in the bottom of your garden wall and fences so they can roam.
- Leave a corner of your garden wild and overgrown (not difficult!)
- Put ramps in your ponds so they can climb out if they fall in.
- Remove netting, polystyrene cups, plastic six-pack holders, elastic bands and any other rubbish hedgehogs can get tangled up in.
- leave out food and water - meaty cat or dog food is good.
- Stop using pesticides, insecticides and slug pellets. They poison hedgehogs and kill their prey.
- Before lighting bonfires, check whether hedgehogs have built nests inside them.
- Watch out for hedgehogs when strimming long grass.
- Build a log pile. They provide hedgehogs with insects and a nesting place.
- Go to hedgehogstreet.org, become a 'hedgehog champion' and join an army of volunteers.
(taken from the Telegraph Magazine, 2015)
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