New RSPB data have revealed further declines in sightings of some of our most familiar and favourite garden mammals and reptiles. Results collected from the Big Garden Birdwatch wildlife survey showed only 25 per cent of people logged a Hedgehog in their garden at least once a month – 13 per cent fewer than in 2014 – while the numbers of people who have never seen a Hedgehog in their garden continued to grow to 25 per cent, up 11 per cent since 2014. A grand total of 284,618 survey participants provided information about other wildlife from 189,162 gardens. This pattern of decline in sightings is apparent across both rural and suburban gardens, yet in urban gardens the number of people who have reported seeing a Hedgehog on a monthly basis has increased by 12 per cent in the last two years (26 per cent overall). Despite this, population monitoring surveys indicate that Hedgehogs remain in long-term decline, with the latest figures suggesting that the British population has dipped to under one million.
Source: Birdwatch, 14 June 2016
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