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How your garden can help save the hedgehog

A beloved species is in catastrophic decline. But there’s plenty we can do about it

3 October 2015

8:00 AM

3 October 2015

8:00 AM

Here’s a strange truth about British life: we love a hedgehog. Britain is conspicuously short of an anti-hedgehog lobby. No one runs down a hedgehog with malice. None of us can see a hedgehog crêpe without a twinge of regret. It takes an unfeasibly tough human to look at a hedgehog — even a photograph — without an unbidden softening of the heart.

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