European hedgehog
Considered a gardener’s best friend, hedgehogs will happily hoover up insects roaming in vegetable beds. Famously covered in spines, hedgehogs like to eat all sorts of bugs and crunchy beetles.…
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Help a hedgehog
What to do if you spot a hedgehog out in daylight, how to check your bonfire for hedgehogs and how to create a hedgehog house in your garden.
How to create a hedgehog hole
Help hedgehogs get around by making holes and access points in fences and barriers to link up the gardens in your neighbourhood.
How to build a hedgehog home
By providing safe places for hedgehogs to live, you’re much more likely to see these prickly creatures in your garden.
Hungry hedgehogs
A guest blog post from everyone's favourite spiky visitor the hedgehog
Rushcliffe Wildlife Watch: Hedgehogs
Join us and learn all about hedgehogs!
Wild Exchanges - A Home for Hedgehogs
On Wednesday 20th August 2025 we welcomed more than forty people to Attenborough Nature Centre for our second Wild Exchanges event – this time focused on one of Britain’s most loved (and most…
What to feed hedgehogs and badgers
Putting out a bit of food can help see mammals like hedgehogs through colder spells.
How to check your bonfire for hedgehogs
We can all take steps to protect hedgehogs on bonfire night. Follow our 4 steps to make sure you keep hedgehogs safe.
Hedgerow
Hedgerows are one of our most easily encountered wildlife habitats, found lining roads, railways and footpaths, bordering fields and gardens and on the coast.
Wildlife Trust hails the halting of the destruction of hedgerow in Ruddington during bird nesting season
Wildlife Trust hails the actions of residents who halted the destruction of a hedgerow in Ruddington and urges the public to be on the lookout for habitat destruction across the county as bird…
Wildlife Advice
Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust do not offer the care and rehabilitation of wildlife or any offer any services related to the discovery, reporting or disposal of dead animals. Our advice pages will help you to know what to do and who to contact if you do find one.