Researchers hope the project will also help to identify barriers preventing hedgehogs from finding food and mates in the wild ...

Witnesses reported seeing the girls throwing the animal down a slide and up in the air, a charity says.

Cambridge University academics are making a hi-tech attempt to save our hedgehogs.

One hedgehog has died and another is recovering from injuries after they were found trapped in a football net. Leicestershire Wildlife Hospital said the pair were found by a dog at the bottom of a ...

Hedgehog "backpacks" and a specially trained detection dog could be the key to protecting the tiny mammal as its population ...

The rescue is currently in the couple's garden, where they carry out first aid, treatment and rehabilitation to unwell, abandoned or injured hedgehogs [Isabella Verona/BBC] A hedgehog rescue centre ...

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