Hedgehog population plummets in UK countryside, research suggests
The population of hedgehogs in rural Britain has continued a “steep decline”, say conservationists. …
The report, by wildlife charities the People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) and The British Hedgehog Preservation Society (BHPS), used data gathered between 1981 and 2020 from five ongoing surveys. This showed that hedgehogs have undergone a long historic decline, but that there are now “vast differences” between urban and rural populations.
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