It’s currently Hedgehog Awareness Week (4th – 10th May 2025) and this year’s theme is ‘Give Hedgehogs the Edge!’. In this blog, we will explain what that theme means for our spikey friends and discuss other ways you can support them this year.
Plus, at Really Wild Bird Food we are offering 10% OFF all of our hedgehog products this week - simply enter the code HEDGEHOG10 at the checkout to apply your savings!
In recent years, hedgehog populations have been declining due to habitat loss and difficulty finding food in our increasingly urban areas. That's why these prickly pals need our help to keep their numbers up!
Fortunately, small steps on our part will surely make the life of these tiny creatures significantly easier and there are several things we can do to help our spikey friends. The easiest thing we can do is to provide them with food and clean drinking water when the resources accessible to them are scarce, particularly during autumn and early spring.
Photo courtesy of Jared Belson
There are about seventeen different hedgehog species all over the world. Hedgehogs are commonly found in wild, rural, and urban habitats in almost all parts of Britain.
Sadly, the numbers of hedgehogs have dwindled over the years. This decline in population is mainly due to the fragmentation of their habitats and difficulty in finding food.
However, small steps on our part will surely make the life of these tiny creatures significantly easier. There are a number of things we can do to help these gardeners' friends, such as supplying food and water, providing hedgehog habitats and creating an overall hedgehog-safe environment.
