For 25 years, Joan Lockley has run a hedgehog rescue from her Staffordshire garden. The 82-year-old says she helped more than ...

British hedgehogs are now officially vulnerable to extinction, new research has found. The Red List conservation report, which was conducted by the Mammal Society, explains that the spiky creatures ...

Hedgehogs, beware: The British are coming! England’s Guy Fawkes Day is sort of like the British version of the Fourth of July. The Nov. 5 holiday commemorates the 1605 arrest of the Gunpowder Plotters ...

The unofficial mascot of the UK is in trouble. Over the past 60 years, the country's once-prolific hedgehog population has dwindled from 30 million, to fewer than one million. Humans are likely to ...

We might not have exotic lions, jumping kangaroos or great elephants roaming wild around the UK, but that doesn’t mean Britain doesn’t have plenty of natural wildlife of its own. The humble hedgehog, ...

A hedgehog rescue centre says it is caring for dozens of animals found severely dehydrated in the high temperatures. Wolds Hedgehog Rescue, based in Driffield, East Yorkshire, said the problem was ...

Only 19 percent of people see hedgehogs in their gardens at least once a month in Scotland, 14 percent fewer than in 2015. Across the U.K. this pattern of decline in sightings is apparent across both ...

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 ...