All you need to know about the Penarth Hedgehog Highways project THE VALE Local Nature Partnership alongside the Vale of Glamorgan council are launching a pilot scheme to create hedgehog highways on a residential housing estate in Penarth. Hedgehogs travel around one mile every night through our parks and gardens in their quest to find food and other hogs to mate with. If you have an enclosed garden you might be getting in the way of their plans. One of the main reasons why hedgehogs are declining in Britain is because our fences and walls are becoming more and more secure, reducing the amount of land available to them.
Hedgehog highways to be installed in gardens of new Barratt homes in Somerset
South West housebuilder Barratt David Wilson Homes is giving hedgehogs a helping hand by installing hedgehog highways through gardens on all new developments in Bristol, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire.
Announced during Hedgehog Awareness Week this week (2 – 8 May), the new policy will see hundreds of runs and routes through new housing developments.
A hedgehog highway is a 13cm X 13cm (5″ X 5″) gap built into the bottom of a garden fence, wall or hedge, which enables hedgehogs to easily move between gardens.
Hedgehogs can travel up to 2km on a single night looking for food and a suitable mate so room to roam is crucial.
Create your very own hedgehog haven during Hedgehog Awareness Week
Find out how you can create your very own hedgehog haven in your garden during Hedgehog Awareness Week
Sunday was the start of Hedgehog Awareness Week (2nd-8th May). It aims to raise the profile of the Britain’s only spiny mammal.
This year the British Hedgehog Preservation Society is asking people create their very own hedgehog haven. Gardens are a stronghold for hedgehogs, and we can make their lives so much easier with very little effort.
Tips will be given out on the charity’s social media accounts during the week using #hedgehogweek with daily competitions to win hedgehoggy prizes. See their Website for tips on things you can do to help hedghogs.
His entry was a 10-minute documentary on The Wonderful World of Hedgehogs. As a result, the teenager won the Best Documentary Film (11-15) category in the University of South Wales virtual awards celebration. At the time, he said: In May, I discovered I had hedgehogs in my garden. I set up two night vision cameras and I spent quite a while working on the film - recording, editing and putting it all together. I discovered lots of interesting things about hedgehogs and I went online and got involved in a number of organisations, too, and interviewed some lovely people for my film.