Road kill competition

How can we save the hedgehog?

By PH Staff / Monday, 18 April 2005 / Loading comments

Road kill

Are you depressed by the number of squashed hedgehogs you see on the roads each day? Take heart, a competition has been launched to find the best way of saving hedgehogs from getting squashed.

Local authorities in St. Petersburg are offering prizes, including holidays, for the best hedgehog saving methods. Contestants are invited to submit details of their schemes and include pictures of hedgehogs saved.

News agency Interfax reported that, after a year, the best hedgehog-saving plan will be honoured with a special prize.

The group of judges, including environmentalists and local VIPs, will take into account the inventiveness of the scheme and the estimated number of hedgehog lives saved.

A spokesman said: "Far too many Russian hedgehogs are perishing under car wheels and this project is to highlight awareness of a growing problem".

Who knows, we may see a UK government initiative...

Thanks to Paul Hobson for the hedgehog photo.