Helping Hedgehogs Thrive

Our Hedgehogs

Who doesn’t love a hedgehog? A taken-for-granted presence in the garden, endeared to us from childhood by Beatrix Potter’s washerwoman Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, but added to the IUCN Red List as vulnerable to extinction in Great Britain in 2020 (95% decline since 1950s). The picture is a mixed one though: rural populations have continued to fall by a third to three quarters over the last couple of - surely a marker that all is not well - but there are signs of recovery in urban areas.

 

Our parish and our gardens are an important refuge and lifeboat for their survival.

What we are doing

Raising awareness:

 

Celebrating Hedgehog Awareness week 30th April - 6th May

 

Highlighting the risks they face - bonfires, dehydration in summer, strimmer injury, litter, and of course pesticides.

 

Publicising sources of advice. 

For local matters: Corsham Area Hedgehog Rescue - follow them on Facebook; Jinny Matters - m. 07813 512755 / h. 01249 701760; Emma Rose Price - m. 07710 699877.

Hedgehog Awareness Week 2023 (30th April - 6th May )

We had a Corsham Area Hedgehog Rescue stall in the village Market Place,

and a wonderful display from Colerne Primary School:

Lots of information - and lots of interest.

Can You Help?
 

Get in touch if interested in being a Hedgehog champion in your street.

 

Chat to neighbours to create a 'Hedgehog street' with the access holes between fences and the habitat they need.

 

Map your sightings on the big hedgehog map, a national conservation project by PTES & BHPS aimed at Britain’s declining hedgehogs.

 

Avoid pesticides and toxic slug pellets.

 

Leave out water and food.

 

Create wild area habitat for them.