European hedgehog
These beloved spiny mammals come out at night to hoover up beetles, worms and other invertebrates.
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Homemade hedgehog hideaways
One of the easiest ways to help your neighbourhood hedgehogs is to create a homemade hedgehog hideaway for your garden.
Make a hedgehog footprint tunnel
Find out if you have hedgehog visitors by making a hedgehog footprint tunnel.
Create a leaf hedgehog for autumn
Create your own hedgehog out of leaves for autumn.
Hope for hedgehogs?
New report by the People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) and the British Hedgehog Preservation Society (BHPS), reveals hedgehogs have declined by between 30% - 75% across different areas of…
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.
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.
Marine Week Species
Find out more about our six featured Marine Week species.
Adopt a Species
Give a gift to nature – and a loved one! Your generous support will help us protect and preserve our local wildlife.
Species of the month: Nightingale
Meet May's species of the month, the nightingale! Find out about the iconic songbird and how you can help monitor them in Essex.
Hedgehog mural kicks off winter campaign
Nature Neighbours campaign set to help hedgehogs in gardens across Essex.
Species in the spotlight - Redwing
The Redwing (Turdus iliacus) is the UK’s smallest true thrush that you’ll be able to spot feeding in fields, hedgerows and orchards this winter.