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The Hibernation post: Bonfire night and pumpkins! – by Charlotte Stevenson-Stoddard

A belated happy halloween! We hope you have all had the spookiest of evenings and have enjoyed all this time in Autumn has to offer. This is a quick message from Horace the Hedgehog to catch you up on where our hedgehogs are this time of year as the dark nights draw in and the […]

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We’re a Gold Accredited Hedgehog Friendly Campus!

Our HFC team has been working hard to achieve Gold accreditation after being awarded Silver in January 2022. By completing a list of 30 actions, we managed to reach this next major milestone. The actions included running hedgehog surveys and awareness campaigns, hosting a Hedgehog Coffee Morning where we raised over £50 for BHPS, working with the local community to litter […]

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How littering affects hedgehogs

Happy Hedgehog Awareness Week!  This annual event aims to raise the profile of hedgehogs in the UK and spread awareness of the problems they face, as well as the ways we can help them. Hedgehogs have been listed as vulnerable on the Red List for Britain’s native mammals, which highlights species at risk of extinction […]

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Introducing HFC

Welcome to the University of Salford’s Hedgehog Friendly Campus very first blog post! I’ll use this opportunity to introduce both Hedgehog Friendly Campus and explain why staff and students at the University of Salford decided to take part. The hedgehog is one of Britain’s best known and most loved mammals yet they are in desperate […]