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Project of the Month November 2024

With a 10 euro donation, you can help save the life of an injured hedgehog or an orphaned hedgehog baby!

Unfortunately, man is the hedgehog's worst enemy. He runs over hedgehogs crossing roads, hedge trimmers and brush cutters used in gardens maim hedgehogs under shrubs, robotic lawn mowers used to maintain lawns scalp hedgehog babies and cut off hedgehogs' noses and feet, and leaf blowers used in autumnal gardens hurl small stone projectiles into hedges, inflicting serious facial and eye injuries on hedgehogs hiding there. The fact that children play football with hedgehogs, as happened in front of a primary school in Bielefeld, and that adults stand by and watch is the ‘shameful crowning glory’ of hedgehog suffering and the animal-torturing disregard for these creatures.

As if that wasn't enough. Hedgehogs’ natural habitats are being continuously destroyed, and hedges and fences block hedgehogs’ access to gardens that could save them. Often, however, many gardens nowadays are gravelled or cemented over, which are hostile to the hedgehog and no longer provide a substitute habitat for hedgehogs and other creatures. Hedgehog rescue centres and our land purchases are helping to prevent the hedgehog from soon becoming an endangered wildlife species in our country and finally ending up on the ‘Red List’ of endangered mammals!

Especially now, in late autumn, hedgehogs are brought into the five hedgehog rescue centres that we support, with their ten care outposts, as emergencies every day. The sight of these injured and often severely mutilated hedgehogs is almost unbearable!

But the rescue centres' wonderful animal-loving ‘hedgehog foster mothers’ selflessly care for these creatures in need, often looking after up to 50 spiny mammals at a time. In this way, they save the lives of thousands of hedgehogs in need every year!

In their admirable work, these ‘hedgehog foster mothers’ and their helpers often reach the limit of their financial means, which they cannot overcome without our help and financial support! As the flood of hedgehogs being admitted to rescue centres continues, and many will need human care as hibernation patients until April of next year, our hedgehog foster mothers at the ‘Igelfreunde Chiemgau’ in Tyrlaching, the ‘Welt der Igel’ in Baienfurt, the Kirchwald/Eifel hedgehog rescue centre, the ‘Herzensigel’ in Kusterdingen and the ‘Arbeitskreis Igelschutz’ in Berlin with the Neuzelle hedgehog centre urgently need your support!

We are still short of around 16,000 euros for the species-appropriate care of up to 1,100 prickly patients until their release. This money is needed for species-appropriate hedgehog food, veterinary products, hygiene products and heat lamps.

We therefore ask you from the bottom of our hearts: Help save a small hedgehog's life today with just 10 euros (!), a hedgehog's life that we humans are threatening every day with our technological way of life.

With just 10 euros - the equivalent of a slice of cake with a pot of coffee - we can pay for a life-saving veterinary product or a hedgehog food ration for 14 days. Of course, we are also very grateful for any additional donations.