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Hibernation help: brown and white fat

In order to survive the cold winter months when natural insect food is scarce, hedgehogs must feed and store as […]

A birthday wouldn’t be complete without a cake! As our 10th birthday celebrations continue, we’re holding a competition to find […]

We love reading your weird and wonderful hedgehog stories, and it’s great to hear that many of you have spotted […]

What is a neighbourhood plan? Neighbourhood plans were introduced in 2011 to allow communities to have a say in how […]

Hedgehog Champions have access to a wealth of free resources, to help raise awareness of hedgehogs and all we can […]

Last week we asked you to write to your MP and urge them to attend the debate on hedgehog legal […]

In 2018 hedgehog ecologist, author and BHPS spokesperson Hugh Warwick started a petition to make hedgehog highways a legal requirement […]

Last year BHPS launched a petition to increase the legal protection of hedgehogs. Thanks to so much public support, the […]

Jessica Turner is a researcher based at the Institute of Zoology and Queen Mary University of London. She is looking […]

Introduction In May 2020 we embarked on a project to discover the hidden lives of hedgehogs. We know that gardens […]