Falkirk group says ‘help us save the hedgehog”

Falkirk Wildlife Conservation Group (FWCG) has teamed up with Falkirk Council to help protect a spiky wildlife species that’s in serious decline across the UK.

The council’s housing service is now reportedly including “mammal gates” in fences around newbuild properties to allow hedghogs to forage in gardens which are otherwise completely inaccessible.

The Wildlife Group has been awarded £1,000 by EB Scotland, which administers the Scottish Landfill Communities Fund, to provide 500 signs ensuring that the mammal gates remain open for hedgehog use.

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The council is now reportedly arranging to have these fitted.

Local residents are meanwhile being encouraged to help hedgehogs by putting out a bowl of dog or cat food and water at dusk - and by no longer using slug pellets, which poison not only slugs but also anything which eats them.

For ideas to make your garden more friendly for hedgehogs, you are invited to visit the British Hedgehog Preservation Society website on https://www.britishhedgehogs.org.uk/

If you see a sick or injured hedgehog, or one out through the day, it is in need of urgent help and you’re asked to phone the SSPCA on 03000 999 999 or Forth Hedgehog Hospital on 07815 914 912.

Other hedgehog sightings can be recorded on the Big Hedgehog Map website at https://bighedgehogmap.org/

For more information on FWCG visit https://www.facebook.com/TheFWCG/

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