THE UK’s only hedgehog detection dog was onto a Wrexham university campus to track down the prickly creatures. Henry, a rescue Springer Spaniel, has a sense of smell 100,000 times more sensitive than a human’s which helps him sniff out signs of the animal. Students and staff joined the search, following Henry as he sniffed his way across campus through the university’s Science Garden, the quad and surrounding greenery. Henry was accompanied by his handler and founder of the Conservation K9 Consultancy, Louise Wilson who trains wildlife detection dogs like Henry to be used for conservation work. Following on from the search, Louise wowed students and staff with a Q and A session where she described the benefits of using wildlife detection dogs,
Wrexham Glyndwr University welcomed the UK’s only hedgehog detection dog onto their main campus to track down the prickly creatures. Henry, a rescue Springer Spaniel, has a sense of smell 100,000 times more sensitive than a human’s which helps him sniff out signs of the animal. Students and staff joined the search, following Henry as […]
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The University of Southampton has been recognised as a safe place for hedgehogs to live and thrive. The British Hedgehog Preservation Society has awarded the University a 2020/21 Bronze Hedgehog Friendly Campus Award for taking positive action to provide a nurturing habitat.
Hedgehogs can successfully live in urban and suburban areas, with gardens and parks providing plentiful food supplies and nesting sites. They are well known for acting as gardeners’ allies by eating slugs, snails and other creepy crawlers which damage plants. The small, spiny mammals are also keen ramblers – roaming an average distance of two kilometres in a single night.
Wildflower project set to boost biodiversity at university campus this summer
A team of Wrexham Glyndwr University staff and students have added fresh green shoots to their local environment – with the help of Keep Wales Tidy and Incredible Edibles Wrexham.
As part of the Welsh Government’s Local Places for Nature project, a 30 metre square donation of wildflower turf was given to the university by Keep Wales Tidy.
University staff, student Green Champions, and volunteers from the Incredible Edibles Wrexham project all worked together during a socially-distanced event last autumn – before current lockdown regulations came in – to build a wildflower verge on the university’s Plas Coch campus on Mold Road in Wrexham.