{"id":614073,"date":"2026-05-31T18:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/614073\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T18:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:27:09","slug":"protect-hedgehogs-with-check-before-you-chop-groups-urge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/614073\/","title":{"rendered":"Protect hedgehogs with &#8216;check before you chop&#8217;, groups urge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;Hedgehogs nest under hedges, which is why they are called hedgehogs, in compost heaps, in twig piles, in long grass and in pampas grass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Most of the hedgehogs injured by strimmers sustain nose injuries, which are extremely difficult to heal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The hedgehog relies on its sense of smell and hearing to find food in the wild and without the ability to use those senses they cannot survive.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She said: &#8220;Hedgehogs nest under hedges, which is why they are called hedgehogs, in compost heaps, in twig&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-614073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614073","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=614073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}