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Date: 1 October 2018 at 07:56:05 BST
To: <Ifrancismobile@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Hedgehogs
Reply-To: "Team UK"
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I — There’s a new petition on Change.org, and we think you might be
interested in signing it.
Petitioning Kit Malthouse, Michael Gove
Help save Britain’s hedgehogs with ‘hedgehog highways’!
Petition by Hugh Warwick
Oxford, UK
27,745
Supporters
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Hedgehogs in the UK are in serious trouble. Repeated studies have shown that
the nation’s favourite animal is being wiped out. But there is something we
can do to save them.
I’m an ecologist and author and I’ve been studying hedgehogs for over 30
years. I know that a key cause of them dying out is that our landscapes are
being fenced off into ever smaller fragments. We need to make sure new
housing developments include ‘hedgehog highways’ - a 13 cm hole in the bottom
of a fence that allows hedgehogs to move freely between gardens to find food
and find a mate.
This simple move would have a big impact on the UK’s hedgehogs - and it’s
cheap and easy for developers to carry out.
So I’m calling upon government to ensure every new housing development builds
in these holes for hedgehog highways.This will allow gardens to be connected,
creating the pathways they need to survive.
We can’t sit back and let hedgehog numbers keep plummeting. It’s estimated
that numbers are already down 95% since the 1950s. We have to act now.
Please sign here to call on the Ministry of Housing and Planning to make
hedgehog highways a legal requirement of new builds.
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