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HOF is a non-profit community interest company. This means that any income we generate goes directly into the running of the project. This includes the website upkeep, and costs for outreach workshops, presentations and materials. We are a very small team and currently all costs are self-funded by the team! (we are in it for the love not the money!) If you would like to support our cause by making a one time or regular donation you can do so by PayPal, crowdfunder campaign or by BACS.
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Publications
Hedgehogs in the UK have been studied by many well-known researchers. Scientific papers are not always an easy read, but are the best place to find peer reviewed, scientifically studied, published data which can be read freely online. Here are some papers you may find interesting…
Hogs on Film: What have we recorded so far? 2023-2024 report
Yalden, D.W. (1976). The food of the hedgehog in England. Acta Theriologica, 21, pp.401-424. doi: https://doi.org/10.4098/at.arch.76-39
Morris, P.A. (1988). A study of home range and movements in the hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus). Journal of Zoology, 214(3), pp.433-449. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1988.tb03751.x
Baker, P.J. and Harris, S. (2007). Urban mammals: what does the future hold? An analysis of the factors affecting patterns of use of residential gardens in Great Britain. Mammal Review, 0(0), p.070611094052001-??? doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2907.2007.00102.x
Pettett, C.E., Moorhouse, T.P., Johnson, P.J. and Macdonald, D.W. (2017). Factors affecting hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) attraction to rural villages in arable landscapes. European Journal of Wildlife Research, [online] 63(3). doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-017-1113-6
Gazzard, A., Yarnell, R.W. and Baker, P.J. (2022). Fine-scale habitat selection of a small mammalian urban adapter: the West European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus). Mammalian Biology. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42991-022-00251-5
Millicent Scott, D., Fowler, R., Sanglas, A., Tolhurst, B, A. (2023). Garden Scraps: Agonistic Interactions between Hedgehogs and Sympatric Mammals in Urban Gardens. Animals. 13, 590. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13040590
Useful links
The British Hedgehog Preservation Society (BHPS) The British Hedgehog Preservation Society
The People's Trust for Endangered Species People's Trust for Endangered Species | Bringing the wild back to life
The Wildlife Trusts (UK) Home | The Wildlife Trusts