Researchers hope the project will also help to identify barriers preventing hedgehogs from finding food and mates in the wild ...

Conservationists in Northern Ireland are trying out some new tech and a sniffer dog to help protect hedgehogs.

A couple who started a hedgehog rescue project in their back garden say they are now trying to raise £50,000 for a new, larger hospital. Rachel and Dominic Matthews set up Deanshanger Hedgehog Rescue ...

One hedgehog has died and another is recovering from injuries after they were found trapped in a football net. Leicestershire Wildlife Hospital said the pair were found by a dog at the bottom of a ...

A wildlife charity spent nearly an hour trying to free a hedgehog that had fallen down a drain. Staff from East Sussex Wildlife Rescue and Ambulance Service (WRAS) were called after a resident found ...

The rescue is currently in the couple's garden, where they carry out first aid, treatment and rehabilitation to unwell, abandoned or injured hedgehogs [Isabella Verona/BBC] A hedgehog rescue centre ...

Gary Snyder has holes in his garden fence. That's not normally the kind of oversight you'd find in a well-kept British garden in a market town like Chipping Norton, 75 miles northwest of London. But ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. British gardens matter more than ever for hedgehogs, according to a study of the secret night life of the spiny mammals.

Hedgehog "backpacks" and a specially trained detection dog could be the key to protecting the tiny mammal as its population ...