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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What to feed hedgehogs and badgers
Putting out a bit of food can help see mammals like hedgehogs through colder spells.
How to check your bonfire for hedgehogs
We can all take steps to protect hedgehogs on bonfire night. Follow our 4 steps to make sure you keep hedgehogs safe.
Hedgehog Award
Take part in the Hedgehog Award at home! You'll get to learn, create and experience new things. Once completed, youʼll receive a certificate!
Hedgehog Walk - FAQs
Your questions about Hedgehog Walk answered
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.
A hedgehog friendly garden
Caught on camera! Wildlife Watcher Bessy and her family have discovered a heap of hog-action in their garden.
Make a hedgehog highway
Make sure our prickly friends have room to roam!
Make a hedgehog house
Hedgehogs need somewhere warm and dry to snuggle down over winter.
Hedgehog Walk patch and stickers Terms and Conditions
Terms and conditions for the Hedgehog Walk free sew-on patch or stickers
Make a hedgehog feeding station
Get more prickly friends in your garden!