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Warwickshire Wildlife Trust

Your support can make a real difference in Solihull.

£5.00 a month will help us to train a volunteer hedgehog surveyor.

£7.00 a month will enable us to visit a school and deliver hedgehog survey training for 30 children, allowing them to investigate the nocturnal animals living in their school grounds.

£10.00 a month will help towards the cost of a high definition wildlife camera to capture footage of hedgehogs in gardens.

£20.00 a month will help towards the costof a hedgehog day at a school including making a hedgehog house and installingfootprint tunnels.

Thank you!

As a thank you for your support, your donation will automatically include12 months membership of Warwickshire Wildlife Trust.

We don’t yet fully understand why hedgehogs are disappearing from our landscape but the main contributing factors are believed to be:

A Prickly Issue

195030 million

hedgehogs1995

1.5 millionhedgehogs

2035The Last

Hedgehog?

Todaythere are believed to be fewer than one million hedgehogs in the UK.

Hedgehogs are

vulnerable to injury

by lawnmowers

and strimmers.

Our gardens have become very tidy with little space

for wildlife.

Thousands of

hedgehogs are killed

each year trying to

cross our busy roads.

Use of insecticides kills vital insects and removes an important food source for hedgehogs.

Impenetrable walls and fences stop hedgehogs using areas where they once happily lived.

We have lost 50%

of our hedgerows in

the last 60 years.

Warwickshire Wildlife Trust want to besure that this isn’t the end of the hedgehog’s story.

The UK’s first Hedgehog Improvement Area was launched in 2014 and it is based right here in Solihull. This pioneering project is working with your community to help save this struggling species.

A Road to Recovery

Make a hole in your garden fence so hedgehogs can roam between gardens.

Here’s a few things you can do to

help hedgehogs in your garden.

Encourage insects into

your garden.

A wild area will provide food and

shelter for hedgehogs throughout the year.

Create a log pile

to attract yummy

insects and provide

a safe place for hedgehogs to

hibernate in winter.

Find out more on our web site www.helpforhedgehogs.co.uk

Hedgehogs can

swim really well

but make sure

they can climb

out easily.

Avoid using chemicals in your garden allowing more insects for our hedgehogs

to eat.

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Hedgehogs have been disappearing from our countryside, parks and gardens at an alarming rate. Just half a century ago they were a common sight after dark, but today we are lucky if we see any at all. Our environment has changed dramatically in that time and these changes have had a massive impact upon hedgehog populations across the UK. Hedgehogs are vanishing from gardens in Solihull where they had been regular visitors up until just 10 years ago. If we don’t act fast then we risk losing one of our most enigmatic and engaging species forever.

The last hedgehog in Solihull?

Adult hedgehogs

have between

five and six thousand

spines.

Did you know?

Baby hedgehogs are called hoglets, four or five

are born in each litter

Yes, I want to help save hedgehogs in Solihull.

My donation will automatically include 12 months membership of Warwickshire Wildlife Trust.

There are many ways you, your friends or work colleagues can help save hedgehogs. Tick the relevant box below and we will send you information about how your group can get involved.

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membership monies from today’s date, as Gift Aid donations, so enabling the Trust to reclaim the tax until I notify you otherwise.

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