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Hedgehog Friendly Campus is go!

The Hedgehog Friendly Campus project is now at the University of Birmingham! It's funded by the British Hedgehog Preservation Society and open to all university staff members and students who want our campus to be a place where hedgehogs can thrive! The number of hedgehogs in the countryside has plummeted by around 50% and in urban gardens by 30% since the year 2000. There are perhaps just a million left, representing a 97% fall from the 30 million estimated to have roamed in the 1950s. This recent decline has been attributed to loss of hedgerows, greater usage of pesticides, litter, impermeable garden fencing and walls, and busy roads causing mortalities.

So what does a ‘Hedgehog Friendly Campus’ look like and what can we do to help hedgehogs on campus?

Staff and students join together to ensure:
  • campus is litter free 
  • plenty of joined up habitats for hedgehogs to roam 
  • opportunity for hedgehogs to eat and drink 
  • hedgehog houses are available to keep them safe and dry
We intend to address these actions by holding regular staff and student litter picks, creating hedgehog highways, provide wild places where hedgehogs can eat and drink safely, as well as provide log piles and houses where hogs can nest.

By joining this initiative and us all working together, we can make the University of Birmingham a hedgehog friendly campus and help us bring these prickly mammals back from the brink.


If you are a student or staff member of the University of Birmingham and want to join, go to https://www.greenimpact.org.uk/hedgehogs/register and select 'University of Birmingham' from the drop down menu.

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