Be a hedgehog hero this autumn
Everyone loves a hedgehog: they look cute, they can roll into a prickly ball, and they snuffle around munching pesky slugs and snails that devour our prized plants – a gardener’s best friend! But…
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Help hedgehogs
Simple actions you can take from home to help hedgehogs thrive.
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.…
Autumn gentian
A late-flowering plant, Autumn gentian displays pretty, mauve, tube-like flowers atop its reddish stems. It favours dry, chalk grassland and sand dune habitats.
Hedgehogs
What we're doing to protect hedgehogs in Northern Ireland
Walk for wildlife this autumn!
Sign-up for our #BigWildWalk and raise funds for The Wildlife Trusts’ great green recovery appeal.
Let nature into your garden this autumn
As the nights draw in and the weather gets colder, it may be tempting to have a big tidy up of your garden, but DON’T! Put down your shovel and pruners and let nature in to your garden this autumn…
How to attract hedgehogs and badgers
Putting out a bit of food can help see mammals like hedgehogs through colder spells.
What to feed hedgehogs and badgers
Putting out a bit of food can help see mammals like hedgehogs through colder spells.
Adopt a hedgehog
Hedgehogs are declining as fast as tigers! Adopt a hedgehog today and help our prickly friends thrive
How to create a hedgehog hole
Help hedgehogs get around by making holes and access points in fences and barriers.
Hedgehog Walk
Between 31st March – 13th April, take on the challenge to walk 3km and fundraise for wildlife along the way! We’ve teamed up with our friends at Aardman, so get ready to join your favourite characters from Timmy Time for this exciting adventure.