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BusinessHedgehog campaigners urge developers to consider prickly friends

Hedgehog campaigners urge developers to consider prickly friends

(C) CBCK. Young hedgehog crossing a village road near some road works.

A CAMPAIGN group trying to save hedgehogs from catastrophic decline provides guides for housing developers to make new homes friendlier to the prickly mammals.

Since the millennium a third of hedgehogs have been lost from towns and cities due to a combination of climate change, habitat loss and increased road collisions.

Hedgehog Street, a joint project from the People’s Trust for Endangered Species and the British Hedgehog Preservation Society, have launched two free guides for housing developers and contractors with guidance on how to help hedgehogs on development sites.

Hedgehog Street, a joint project from the People’s Trust for Endangered Species and the British Hedgehog Preservation Society, have launched two free guides for housing developers and contractors with guidance on how to help hedgehogs on development sites.
(C) Hedgehog Street. Hedgehog Highways allows the prickly creatures to move safely between gardens.

The guides provide a wealth of advice and guidance on how to build Hedgehog Highways, manage the mammals and how to manage the land more sensitively.

Across the UK, 500,000 people have signed a petition on Change.org calling for Hedgehog Highways to be installed in all new developments to tackle the problem.

The guides can be found at the following links:

https://www.hedgehogstreet.org/development/
https://www.hedgehogstreet.org/hempguide/

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