Pendle MP backs Campaign to grow hedgehog numbers
Pendle MP Andrew Stephenson MP has backed a campaign to help restore the hedgehog population, calling for residents to become Hedgehog Champions by putting out food and making holes in fences to link up gardens and green spaces, making ‘hedgehog highways’.
The Hedgehog Street campaign, a joint initiative between the British Hedgehog Preservation Society and the People’s Trust for Endangered Species, aims to reverse the decline in Britain’s hedgehogs. Mr Stephenson gave his support after the campaign was taken up in Parliament by Transport Secretary, Chris Grayling MP.
The UK has lost over a third of its hedgehog population in the past decade and efforts are being made to restore the number of hedgehogs in the wild. The campaign aims to raise awareness, research hedgehog behaviour and ecology, train land owners in hedgehog conservation, and lobby developers and the government to support the conservation of hedgehog. It also proposes easy solutions to reverse the waning population that can be taken by individuals.
Andrew said, “It is really easy it is to make a difference in the hedgehog population, by putting out food for them, buying a hedgehog house or making a hole in the fence to link up as many gardens as possible.
“We can really make a difference for hedgehogs and return them to their previous state”.
Andrew urged his constituents to join the campaign’s efforts and be part of over 46,000 Hedgehogs Champions around the UK that are taking the recommended steps to help grow the UK’s hedgehog population.
More information on the campaign is at: https://www.hedgehogstreet.org/