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How to check your bonfire for hedgehogs
We can all take steps to protect hedgehogs on bonfire night. Follow our 4 steps to make sure you keep hedgehogs safe.
European hedgehog
Considered a gardener’s best friend, hedgehogs will happily hoover up insects roaming in vegetable beds. Famously covered in spines, hedgehogs like to eat all sorts of bugs and crunchy beetles.…
How to protect hedgehogs and build a wildlife-friendly bonfire at home
It’s set to be a record year for back garden bonfire celebrations on 5th November, but please check bonfires before lighting.
Towns and gardens
The green spaces of our towns and gardens bring nature into our daily lives, brightening our mornings with birdsong and the busy buzzing of bees. Together, the UK's gardens are larger than…
Grow food not grass
A new community garden has been installed for residents in Bemerton Heath.
How to create a hedgehog hole
Help hedgehogs get around by making holes and access points in fences and barriers to link up the gardens in your neighbourhood.
How to build a hedgehog home
By providing safe places for hedgehogs to live, you’re much more likely to see these prickly creatures in your garden.
Swifts
Daniel Kronenberg from Salisbury and Wilton Swifts describes these impressive birds and how we can help them thrive.
House sparrows
Harry Munt from Save the House Sparrow tells us about these feathered tenants.
Hedgerow
Hedgerows are one of our most easily encountered wildlife habitats, found lining roads, railways and footpaths, bordering fields and gardens and on the coast.