{"id":246162,"date":"2025-11-05T22:55:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/246162\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T22:55:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:55:17","slug":"tips-to-support-hedgehogs-from-rescue-charity-secret-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/246162\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips to support hedgehogs from rescue charity Secret World"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The rescue centre is currently housing around 50 hedgehogs<\/p>\n

A wildlife rescue centre has said we need to support hedgehogs in our gardens this winter as they say the mammals are close to becoming “endangered”.<\/p>\n

Staff at Secret World Wildlife Rescue Centre near Highbridge in Somerset are currently housing around 50 hedgehogs and have calls everyday about animals.<\/p>\n

George Bethell from Secret World Wildlife Rescue Centre said: “Numbers have declined quite a lot in the last 30 years so they are becoming endangered now.<\/p>\n

“My top tips are cut a small hole in the bottom of your fence, create a hedgehog highway, put a bit of food out and make your gardens are a bit more natural.”<\/p>\n

\"Hedgehog<\/p>\n

Secret World say they are seeing an “increase” in hedgehogs due to the sharp change of weather<\/p>\n

“Bonfire night’s approaching, so making sure that if you are building a bonfire you light it straight away and you don’t leave it because that gives animals an opportunity to go in and shelter,” Mr Bethell added. <\/p>\n

“Build a log pile in the corner of your garden. Leave an area, you know, unmanaged. Let wildlife take over.<\/p>\n

“And you could put some food out for them as well. So some meaty cat chunks in jelly and a little bowl of water is ideal if you want to support feed them,” he explained.<\/p>\n

\"Women<\/p>\n

The rescue centre houses mammals from hedgehogs to injured birds <\/p>\n

Secret World recently held an educational event for families to learn more about hedgehogs.<\/p>\n

Freddy, who made a hedgehog house, said: “Hedgehogs are critically endangered. Their numbers have been decreasing so much, so hopefully this house helps.<\/p>\n

\"Kid<\/p>\n

The session educated kids into making shelters and homes for hedgehogs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC The rescue centre is currently housing around 50 hedgehogs A wildlife rescue centre has said we need…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-246162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}