Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 12529
Hedgehogs: Conservation
Tabled: 4 November 2024
Answered: 11 November 2024
Question
Alex Mayer
Labour — Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has for the (a) protection and (b) conservation of hedgehogs following the change to their conservation status on the International Union for Conservation of
Answer
Mary CreaghThe Government has no plans to provide additional legal protection to the hedgehog in England. While we are concerned about hedgehogs, there is no evidence to suggest legal protection will address the main causes of decline namely habitat loss, pesticide ...
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