Hazel dormouse in hand. Picture: Clare Pengelly WOODS and hedgerows across a 9.5 kilometre stretch of mid-Wensleydale have been connected to create an ideal home for the endangered Hazel Dormouse. Land managers have spent the past three years planting, or bringing into ‘appropriate management’, hedgerows and woodlands either side of Freeholders’ Wood at Aysgarth Falls, where dormice were reintroduced in 2008. Farmers have even planted brambles – plants they might usually regard as a thorny nuisance – in order to provide the mammals with late season fruit. Although now formally completed, the impact of the three-year ‘Wensleydale Dormouse Project’ will be monitored. Simple tubes, containing inked pads, have been hung in hedges to track how far the dormice spread out from their Aysgarth stronghold.
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Did you know that it’s Hedgehog Street’s 10th birthday this year? Our guest explains how its campaign has progressed, and what you can do in your garden to help.
Back in 2018 we had an interesting discussion around the lack of Hedgehog sightings in our gardens. Three years on, we thought we’d check in with the Hedgehog Street campaign to see what progress has been made, and help them celebrate their 10th birthday!
This is a guest post by Grace Johnson
. All views expressed are Grace’s own and not necessarily shared by Which?.
Hedgehog Street began 10 years ago with just 15 volunteer Hedgehog Champions, who all pledged to make small hedgehog-friendly changes to their gardens. Now, I’m thrilled to say we have more than 90,000 Hedgehog Champions up and down the country who have made their gardens hedgehog havens!
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