"Hedgehogs Could Be Wiped Out In 10 Years"

"Hedgehogs Could Be Wiped Out In 10 Years" | Kevin O'Sullivan FURIOUS

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@rogerwilson6367 6 ай бұрын

When I was a kid (72 now) they were everywhere but I don't see anywhere near as many now. I actually blame the lack of hedges, strange as that may seem. We get them in our garden occasionally but nowhere near as many as I used to see.

@LucyKelly-of6cu 6 ай бұрын

Everyone should grow a hedge! Small birds need hedges too, to nest in and to eat the berries of!

@janetmalcolm6191 6 ай бұрын

Plus lots of traffic. I hate seeing them killed on the roads. People drive so fast at night. Also gardens paved over. Does nothing for hedgehogs.

@anthonymartyn5590 7 ай бұрын

We have loads of hedgehogs in our garden and all the land next to our house, my wife put food out every night and lots of fresh water, we have little hedgehogs so they are breeding, my wife loves helping them some come to the backdoor. 😊🦔🦔🦔

@LewisNuke92 6 ай бұрын

'Some come to the back door' 🤭 Sorry, just had a man-child moment there 🤣 Keep doing what you're doing though 👍

@anthonymartyn5590 6 ай бұрын

@@LewisNuke92 hi 👋 I am the wife who loves hedgehogs, I might be thick but some do come to the back door, some are so big they have been coming for years, I have a good sense of humour but I don't get what you think is funny about that, I will keep doing what I do,been doing it for nearly 20 years and we also have foxes,bats squirrels, small deer and lots of different birds everyday and I but out food and water for them,I have had local vets help injured wildlife and also the police and firemen, thought this might give you a good laugh and brighten up your day,Kate. 😊

@LewisNuke92 6 ай бұрын

@@anthonymartyn5590 the jokes clearly gone waaay over your head 🙃😂

@anthonymartyn5590 6 ай бұрын

@@LewisNuke92 I don't see what is funny, honestly example it ,I do have a good sense of humour and like a laugh but I only said come to the back door!if that's funny then I might try a career in comedy or maybe you are a idiot who is at home smoking the afternoon away just laughing at anything, some of the hedgehogs have really big spikes but you sound like a really big prick 😉 I won't be replying to you again, I bet you love too have a argument with people In the comments but I have much better things to do with my day,Kate. 🤐

@LucyKelly-of6cu 6 ай бұрын

Be careful what you feed them. The wrong food can kill them!

@darrenporter1850 6 ай бұрын

I have a solution, instead of 'a little land to share in garden' Stop flattening the whole country and building on Green Belt, Flood Plains and important land.

@LucyKelly-of6cu 6 ай бұрын

Yes, absolutely! SAVE what little countryside we have left!

@darrenporter1850 6 ай бұрын

@@LucyKelly-of6cu I get angry when people say, 'we have loads of space'. Unfortunately we don't. I can see species vanishing just in my lifetime

@zoeilobowdery8778 6 ай бұрын

Couldn't agree more we won't have any country side at this rate and most of the unwanted houses that r being built for the ismalists 🇬🇧🇫🇴

@milo2324 6 ай бұрын

Refugees and their 12 children, have higher priorirty than hedgehog, it seems

@darrenporter1850 6 ай бұрын

@@milo2324 Unfortunately 1 in 7 native Species are endangered. But some people thing housing the World in one big dump is the way forward.

@AngelaDibble-qc2ot 6 ай бұрын

The interviewer was so rude interrupting Hugh Warwick and dismissing the fact that they were not even showing the British Hedgehog that they were talking about.

@kathybarry2765 6 ай бұрын

Yes I agree,,He never gave the guy a chance to talk properly.

@wendyrowland7787 6 ай бұрын

I agree, he sounds pissed.

@mfoco1 6 ай бұрын

Isn't this the MO of every presenter on TalkTV? "Couth" does not describe any of them.

@darrenporter1850 6 ай бұрын

Just as Labour want to build 'new cities'..and I'm told, 'we have loads of space'. Let's add 'swifts', 'swallows', 'housemartins', 'woodcocks', 'skylarks', butterflies, to the endangered list. I could go on with lots more.

@LucyKelly-of6cu 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for giving time to wildlife! It is a very great love of mine! And thanks to High Warwick! SAVE HEDGEHOGS!

@Rhubarbandcustard 6 ай бұрын

A bit irritating that Kevin keeps interrupting, let the man talk. Kevin’s comment (re African hedgehog) was bloody rude.

@deedee5562 6 ай бұрын

Yes it was.

@gennyshovel7083 6 ай бұрын

This year we heard them rutting in our garden. 3 weeks or so later the pregnant female was run over. I am powerless to help the situation when wildlife events happen like this and it is very depressing.

@deedee5562 6 ай бұрын

😭❤️🦔

@milo2324 6 ай бұрын

My lovely swan was killed on canal by dog or fox when she was nesting. I knew her for 4 years. I saw many of her cygnets growing up.

@deedee5562 6 ай бұрын

@@milo2324 ❤️ am hoiping the babies are doing ok

@Debbie-henri 6 ай бұрын

I haven't seen a hedgehog in around 15 years (and I live in the countryside, often go out walking, early mornings and dusk included). The last one I saw was our own garden hedgehog. He was a lovely little chap, quite tame, wouldn't run away or curl up when anyone approached. Then one morning I found him outside the door, on his back and writhing in agony, making these pitiful sounds and horrible secretions coming out of everywhere. We couldn't save him and had to put him down. He wasn't old, I suspect a disease. It's something I can't forget. Poor little mite. It really saddens me that they're becoming rare and the outlook is so bleak for them, and it infuriates me that money is spent on expensive projects like introducing bison when we can't even look after what native creatures we have already. It's like - it's more 'fun' to rewild with a less familiar 'zoo' animal like bison than to bother about creatures people are familiar with already (whether or not they have ever seen one). And yes, mowers are terrible for hedgehogs. I used to work as a park keeper and I remember colleagues accidentally killing them. If you can, and you have the room for them, make a 'brash heap' in your garden. 'Wild Your Garden With Joel Ashton' is a great channel for guidance on how to create wild spaces in your garden and how you can make meadow areas (however small) look attractive, how to make insect homrs, etc. He visits other gardens too, getting some good sources of inspiration along the way.

@annieclark-maxwell5570 6 ай бұрын

I live on a farm and for years we always used to be overrun by hedgehogs then in the last fifteen years neighbours started putting out food for badgers. Now we are overrun with badgers and have tb and no hedgehogs. You want hedgehogs control the badger population

@kathybarry2765 6 ай бұрын

Look after them all, Leave nature to it self.

@annieclark-maxwell5570 6 ай бұрын

Unfortunately badgers are the top of the predator chain and so ignoring them does not allow the population to control naturally as they have already been disturbed and their population explosion has reached epidemic proportions

@mikaq19 6 ай бұрын

When queried, a blue hedgehog bemoaned the lack of gold rings as a reason for the decline.

@The_Prizessin_der_Verurteilung 6 ай бұрын

Our back garden will help them, it's so overgrown we have deer wandering around in it. We see one pudgy little hedgehog running through every other day, so we dare not cut it down in case they're nesting here.

@evieblessed 6 ай бұрын

I live rurally and haven't seen a hedgehog for about 2 years. We still have hedges here and bordered by fields, wild areas in the garden. I used to get a few in my garden every evening, which I would feed, but they ended up dead on the road and none have replaced them. So sad.

@billbo7630 6 ай бұрын

No mention of the out of control badger population of course. One of the biggest killers of hedgehogs after habitat loss.

@kathybarry2765 6 ай бұрын

I am so glad that there are so many people trying to save our hedghogs.

@TylerDurden-n8b 6 ай бұрын

The way things are going it looks like the humans may be gone before the hedgehogs are.

@KatharinaK117 6 ай бұрын

Indeed 😡😡😡and leave the hedgehog 🦔🦔🦔 alone! Or they will sting you! But... hedgehogs have a terrible prophecy for human beings who HARM other human beings! 🙏🏼

@spex357 6 ай бұрын

Yes you may be right, we might all be dead soon along with everything else, "Injecting the sky - Met Office confirm Geoengineering".

@AlwaysEngland 6 ай бұрын

What do expect with our green belts going!?

@darrenporter1850 6 ай бұрын

Labour want new cities, building on Green Belt.

@Adam-sd2ow 6 ай бұрын

@@darrenporter1850 Especially when they'll welcome 1000's from Palestine. Odd how the climate brigade never include all the extra people coming into the country in any discussions on overpopulation or extra houses and schools having to be built on green fields and torn down woodland.

@darrenporter1850 6 ай бұрын

@@Adam-sd2ow 100% my argument. The left are pro climate change, but pro immigration. They think 1 million new people doesn't effect the Environment? It's the no.1 reason.

@milo2324 6 ай бұрын

@@Adam-sd2ow exactly! and they say they care about this country. they seem to care more about their own image. they dont want to risk being accused of racism 😂

@philipfreyaborn8288 6 ай бұрын

@@Adam-sd2ow spot on

@davidb9835 6 ай бұрын

Maybe remove all the protections on badgers so they can be vastly reduced in numbers, and then maybe the hedgehogs number might increase again.

@janetmalcolm6191 6 ай бұрын

In many places the badgers are still culled.

@davidbilbrough3726 6 ай бұрын

As badgers are the hedgehogs only predator (apart from automobiles) the decrease in certain areas is usualy down to the amount of badgers! Can't have both!

@primordialpouch565 6 ай бұрын

It's a horrible death too, they are the only creature that can pry open a rolled up hog and then eat it's middle bits, I will say though I've seen plenty of living hedgehogs but never in 40 years seen a live badger, only ones that have been killed and tossed on the side of the road to make it look like an accident

@carwynbrown 6 ай бұрын

Yes. You are spot on with that statement. I have seen many hedgehog remains in my fields. Many Badgers sets with bare earth patches in grass fields, busy looking for worms.

@oldshiny3012 6 ай бұрын

what useless interview from a guy who was more interested in cleaning gardens up and dishing out a guilt trip, bet he is also a hardened climate activist too

@spex357 6 ай бұрын

They scrape under my gate every night for a drink, before going hunting around the garden. They arrive as soon as it gets dark and often don't leave until the Sun is about to rise, making more of a scraping noise on the way out.

@PopularesVox 6 ай бұрын

Good Lord, even our Great British hedgehogs are being conflated with African ones, They will be making documentaries next saying that they have always been here.😉😊

@CT-vm4gf 6 ай бұрын

I’ve got a feeling the host has absolutely no interest in animals and really couldn’t give a toss about anything but himself.

@martinr6298 6 ай бұрын

Have the BBC attributed this to Climate Change yet? Kevin's reaction is very alarmist ..... Is he looking for a job with BBC?

@deedee5562 6 ай бұрын

Its not pedantic to expect pics of our native hedgehogs, kevin! I was looking for them🦔🦔🦔🦔

@primordialpouch565 6 ай бұрын

I know what a moronic thing he said, it's like talking about a pigeon and showing pics of an eagle

@deedee5562 6 ай бұрын

@@primordialpouch565 indeed! Im not really that keen on the 'kevin ones' 🥴...... but I suppose 'a man is a man', what does it matter 🤷🏼‍♂️. I only watched it because of the hedgehog on the thumbnail. The experts face when he said it!🤭. Not good kevin, not good at all. 🇬🇧🦔

@exelonlineandco928 6 ай бұрын

Well that's Bs for the first time in my life I'm seeing them more regularly in our local area, big healthy ones too

@LucyKelly-of6cu 6 ай бұрын

That may be due to the work of wildlife charities!

@Adam-sd2ow 6 ай бұрын

I bet it's because sh*t hole London has none so that means the whole country too, for London centred arrogant bells.

@zoltan-zq3xe 7 ай бұрын

Very sad, the way the world's going we all might be extinct in 10 years.

@6brman224 6 ай бұрын

Badgers used to be on the General License, also known as the vermin list. They got removed some years ago, their population exploded and the hedgehog numbers declined. Westminster should keep out of rural matters, leave things to country folk. When out at night shooting foxes, gamekeepers could legally deal with badgers in the same way, at no cost. 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help'. Give me strength.

@Cornz38 6 ай бұрын

Had his arse handed to him by a bee keeper last week about hornets and now he's getting his arse handed to him by a wildlife expert. Kevin does get sand in his manpon easily these days.

@jamiefoyers2800 6 ай бұрын

I got left a solitary spine on the cat food saucer this morning. The hedgehogs in my back garden are well fed and have the reputation of being party animals!. They leave a hell of a trail behind them of poo, upturned saucers and spines...but they're wonderful creatures. Hang around them long enough and they're crazy but very intelligent spine-balls.

@MJ1919 6 ай бұрын

Fences too. They can’t go through on their habit trail’s because we put up fences. Plus hedges being cut at the wrong time can disturb them and the birds. We are not supposed to cut hedges between 1st March and 1st September.

@ukvalues7669 6 ай бұрын

As a child i would see upto 30 at night,to many squashed on roads but as a adult iv seen 1 in the last 8 years.its mainly pesticides in my opinion

@Adrian-jk4kx 6 ай бұрын

Slug pellets too maybe ?

@rikfreeborn7690 6 ай бұрын

😂😂 yes of course you did .

@heidimeigs5192 6 ай бұрын

This cannot be allowed to happen! Y’all need to step up your preservation efforts!

@wendyrowland7787 6 ай бұрын

The constant interruptions are infuriating.

@davidreynolds3082 6 ай бұрын

Hogs need hedges. The lack of them or destroying their existing habitat means they won't readily breed.

@kathybarry2765 6 ай бұрын

Look after them please 🦔

@therespectedlex9794 6 ай бұрын

0:52 Financially incorrect? I think we're dealing with a monetarist here. Hedgehogs grub for worms, he grubs for money.

@stevenhowe6677 6 ай бұрын

Hedgehogs rapidly decline because of roads/traffic and also pesticides and poisons such as slug pellets etc etc, there are still areas of the countryside where they can live 'reasonably' safe but they are most certainly in decline overall.

@no-one-no-one 6 ай бұрын

It is a real shame, just like the Cuckoo bird, rarely see or hear them anymore

@johnwatson7120 6 ай бұрын

Well common sense would tell you there’s more cars on the road . more roads for hedgehogs to wonder onto makes sense that the numbers are down. 🤔

@Adam-sd2ow 6 ай бұрын

I see hedgehogs all the time, sometimes in the garden sometimes on the grass across the road.

@VOLightPortal 6 ай бұрын

If they don't have a fight or flight response they most likely will go extinct, they will just get decimated over time due to road traffic

@Felled-angel 6 ай бұрын

Every time i go outside at night to smoke a fat head i see them i be like "hay little guy" 🤩

@kathybarry2765 6 ай бұрын

Brilliant 👍🦔🦔

@JP-dq1cl 6 ай бұрын

I have one in my garden 🦔

@kathybarry2765 6 ай бұрын

Precious 💞

@Chris-the-Saxon 6 ай бұрын

There are some imported people that eat them.

@deedee5562 6 ай бұрын

I googled...... people do eat them.noooo😭

@HH-ld3uq 6 ай бұрын

I live on a small holding haven’t seen one in at least 15 years.

@astrobuddsy6230 6 ай бұрын

I think there are at least a million of the little buggers round where I live. They are bloody everywhere and my greyhound tries to eat them everytime he sees one!

@paulncott4587 6 ай бұрын

Who's the prat in the glasses?

@zeezerzam 7 ай бұрын

😳 whos gonna collect all the random gold rings floating everywhere??

@Adam-sd2ow 6 ай бұрын

Doctor Robotnik and his machines gonna take over.

@Elderly-Marian-in-UK 6 ай бұрын

How can i help the hedgehogs.

@katzunjammer 6 ай бұрын

i remeber in the 80s and 90s there was alot of jokes on tv (even in adverts) about hedgehogs getting run over by traffic. It turns out that this was actually a real thing and thir number declined alot at that time because traffic has increased... perhaps they shoudl create more 'green corridoors' and tunnels under roads and motorways so animals can go from one place to the other

@songscoops4205 6 ай бұрын

Prickly talk ...don't go greta on us though

@edmundblackaddercoc8522 6 ай бұрын

I live in the countryside only seen half dozen in 10 years

@Adam-sd2ow 6 ай бұрын

I live in Sunderland next to roads and lots of houses, I see them all the time.

@chrisscahill54 6 ай бұрын

Ban fences bring back hedges

@simplesimon5739 6 ай бұрын

I could be dead in 10 years.

@TigerMa75 6 ай бұрын

Sorry but only one thing to blame - cars. People drive too fast now and a hedgehog hasn’t got a chance. The few I have seen have been killed on the road. Add to that the use of insecticides and pesticides and too much loss of green spaces.