European hedgehog
Considered a gardener’s best friend, hedgehogs will happily hoover up insects roaming in vegetable beds. Famously covered in spines, hedgehogs like to eat all sorts of bugs and crunchy beetles.…
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Homemade hedgehog hideaways
One of the easiest ways to help your neighbourhood hedgehogs is to create a homemade hedgehog hideaway for your garden.
Make a hedgehog footprint tunnel
Find out if you have hedgehog visitors by making a hedgehog footprint tunnel.
Create a leaf hedgehog for autumn
Create your own hedgehog out of leaves for autumn.
How to build a hedgehog home
By providing safe places for hedgehogs to live, you’re much more likely to see these prickly creatures in your garden.
How to create a hedgehog hole
Help hedgehogs get around by making holes and access points in fences and barriers to link up the gardens in your neighbourhood.
Hope for hedgehogs?
New report by the People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) and the British Hedgehog Preservation Society (BHPS), reveals hedgehogs have declined by between 30% - 75% across different areas of…
Hedgehog mural kicks off winter campaign
Nature Neighbours campaign set to help hedgehogs in gardens across Essex.
Local Wildlife Sites
Local Wildlife Sites are areas of land that are especially important for their wildlife. They are some of our most valuable wildlife areas.
Great Baddow Hedgehogs
Urban Wildlife Champions share their experiences helping hedgehogs in Great Baddow.
Ray Island photo wins the public vote!
Essex Wildlife Trust’s Photography Competition 2018 winner announced
Nature Neighbours - Hedgehogs
You can help wildlife this autumn by giving nature a home in your garden. Take a look at what you can do.