Helping hedgehogs

摘要

When I started studying hedgehogs back in 1985, there was no thought that these peculiar, fascinating andadorable creatures might be under serious threat. The main concerns for hedgehogs revolved around the numbers being killed on roads - something that became an oft-repeated joke and, rather ironically, led them to being used by the Department for Transport, in cartoon form, as a road-safety educational tool for children.What a difference a few decades make. By 2020, the hedgehog had joined the sorry list of species considered as Vulnerable to Extinction (in the next 20 years) on the Red List for British Mammals.