Hedgehogs: Conservation

(asked on 7th February 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Enviornment, Food and Rural Affairs, what meetings his Department has held with the (a) British Hedgehog Preservation Society and (b) People’s Trust for Endangered Species in the last two years on tackling the decline in hedgehog numbers.


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Thérèse Coffey Portrait
Thérèse Coffey
This question was answered on 20th February 2018

Defra Ministers met the British Hedgehog Preservation Society and the People’s Trust for Endangered Species in February 2016 to discuss tackling the decline in hedgehog numbers.

Natural England holds regular meetings with the People’s Trust for Endangered Species covering a number of species to progress actions identified to support hedgehogs.

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