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Let’s look after our threatened hedgehogs
PETER FROST reflects on our rapidly diminishing population of one of his favourite British wild mammals

AN URGENT phone call from Sophie, a friend of mine, last week had some very good news.

Her hedgehog house, which I helped to built last summer, had not just survived but she had seen the first hedgehog emerged from hibernation.

No hoglets yet but any babies probably won’t appear until June or July. We can only hope.

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