{"id":478856,"date":"2026-03-16T16:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/478856\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T16:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:23:11","slug":"channel-islands-hedgehog-numbers-plummet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/478856\/","title":{"rendered":"Channel Islands hedgehog numbers &#8216;plummet&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the rescue&#8217;s hedgehog year records ran from October to September and in the 2024-2025 data, only 246 hedgehogs were admitted compared to previous years where it had been about 500. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since October 2025, Burdon said they had only admitted 100 hedgehogs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;At this rate, our annual total will be only 200,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Burdon asked people not to stop feeding hedgehogs in gardens, and leaving water for them, because that is what was &#8220;keeping them alive&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She also urged people to put a hole in their fence or gate to allow hedgehogs to &#8220;come and go&#8221; from gardens freely. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She said the rescue&#8217;s hedgehog year records ran from October to September and in the 2024-2025 data, only&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-478856","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\/478856","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=478856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}