Found a hedgehog
Daylight is the emergency signal. How to tell nest-building from illness, the signs that need a rescue today, and what to do — and not do — while you find one.
Hedgehogs
Vulnerable in Great Britain, and almost nothing that is killing them is unlawful. What the law actually protects, what the population surveys record, the hazards a garden can fix, and the one rule worth knowing: a hedgehog out in daylight is in trouble.
Hedgehog rescues
Organisations recorded as taking hedgehogs in, with current capacity and how recently it was confirmed. More rescues name hedgehogs than name any other single species.
Protection and status
Schedule 6 restricts methods, not killing itself; the Wild Mammals (Protection) Act 1996 covers cruelty. Alongside the Red List assessments and what the State of Britain’s Hedgehogs survey found.
What actually kills them
Strimmers, netting, bonfires, ponds, pellets and close-boarded fencing — the causes rescues record most often, and the mitigation for each.