Uist Hedgehog Rescue

News

20 September 2005

’Conservation’ quango withdraws plans to shoot Uist hedgehogs
Uist Hedgehog Rescue (UHR) has issued the following statement in response to today’s announcement by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), that the Scottish Executive’s ’conservation’ organisation is withdrawing its plan to shoot hedgehogs on the Uists.

18 August 2005

Outrage at ’conservation’ organisation’s plans to shoot uist hedgehogs
Uist Hedgehog Rescue (UHR) is outraged that so-called ’conservation’ organisation, Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), is planning to kill healthy hedgehogs with shotguns on the Uists this autumn.

1 April 2005

Hedgehog rescuers return to Uists
Taxpayer-funded ’unethical killing policy’ slammed.

Latest News

Hebridean hedgehogs: a prickly issue
The Uists cull has already cost more than £1m, but we should question the causal link between bird and hedgehog populations (guardian.co.uk).

Revealed: £1m bill to banish egg-stealing hedgehogs
Scotland's natural heritage body should spend £1 million of public money funding another three years of an island hedgehog-trapping project, a report has recommended (The Scotsman).

How much is a hedgehog worth?
The massive difference in people's attitudes to wildlife is starkly revealed today. (Hugh Warwick: My life with hedgehogs)

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