I feel I should repeat, for those of us who didn’t see the link to:
GUIDANCE FOR RELEASING HEDGEHOGS
THAT HAVE BEEN REHABILITATED
https://www.britishhedgehogs.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BHPS-Guidance-For-relasing-Rehabilitated-Hedgehogs.pdf
To quote:
“To try to offer best practice advice, The British Hedgehog Preservation Society (BHPS), British Wildlife Rehabilitation Council (BWRC), The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), Vale Wildlife Hospital (VWH) and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) put their heads together with Dr Nigel Reeve and Dr Pat Morris to come up with a guide for rehabilitators that all collaborators are happy to put their name to. This document is a result of that collaboration, and is based on detailed research by Dr Nigel Reeve and Dr Pat Morris, published in major research journals”
This is the authoritative advice.
P.S. By the way, Penny, you may already have seen, the advice actually mentions country estates and the potential problems around them.
