A conservation project has secured nearly £100,000 towards removing every hedgehog from a group of islands in the Western Isles. The animals are not native to the Hebrides and are blamed for eating ...

Here are six of the new species, including a furry hedgehog named after vampires, an almost invisible dragon lizard and a ...

Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions Once a common site in the British countryside and gardens, hedgehog numbers are now taking a 'nose dive'. The most recent data from the Mammals Trust UK ...

Wildlife experts are urging gardeners to cut holes in their fences this spring to help a much-loved (and much-endangered) ...

Scottish SPCA wildlife operations lead Sean Meechan added "As a non-native invasive species to Uist, hedgehogs have a detrimental impact on the important breeding populations of ground-nesting ...

In their 2024 paper, Kumar and colleagues wrote that the Madras hedgehog is severely data-deficient, but has been classified as a species of least concern on the IUCN Red List “due to its ...