Ordinary people are doing vital wildlife work. How? Counting hedgehog homes | Hugh Warwick

The census is one way in which citizen scientists are adding to the store of data about our environment. It can also be the start of an amazing virtuous circleToday sees the launch of the “hedgehog housing census”. All over the country, thousands of people are going to the trouble and expense of building or buying hedgehog homes. We want to know how important this is to the lives of one of our most loved animals – and how we can improve the way we help hedgehogs in the future.F