Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:45 pm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/conservation/sto...1687999,00.html
a sad sad day for hedgies! click the link above to read the whole story.These are sad and bad days for the hedgehog. Nobody knows, for sure, very much about them - how many there are, where they are, how many are needed for a viable population, how they cope with modern life, or, in a country teeming with foxes and badgers, their natural predators. But one thing now is certain: the hedgehogs of Britain are dying out at a rate of about a fifth of the population every four years. By 2025, they will be gone.