Hedgehogs travel miles every night visiting lots of different gardens searching for ground-dwelling invertebrates such as worms, beetles, slugs, caterpillars, millipedes and earwigs. The last 20 years, however, has seen around a third of Britain’s hedgehogs disappear. The main causes are pesticides, road deaths and a lack of connectivity between gardens, which reduces their range and forces them onto roads.

To keep our Blackawton hedgehogs safe, and our gardens pest free in the process, we need to reduce the use of  garden pesticides and help them travel through our gardens - all they need is a CD case size hole in the fence or wall between us and our neighbours.

If you are able to open a hedgehog highway, or there is already a route for them to travel in and out of your garden, then please let us know and we’ll be one step closer to keeping our Blackawton hedgehogs safe and our gardens pest free.

Thanks to Vivienne from Kingsbridge for the use of the hedgehog footage in the video.