In today's update of their red list for Europe, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is therefore ...
Sadly, the European hedgehog is now officially in decline across Europe. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has recently categorized the hedgehog as "near threatened" on ...
Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions Once a common site in the British countryside and gardens, hedgehog numbers are now taking a 'nose dive'. The most recent data from the Mammals Trust UK ...
The Hedgehog (Hh) pathway plays central roles in animal development and stem-cell function. Defects in Hh signalling lead to birth defects and cancer in humans. The first and often genetically ...
Family based linkage studies of kindreds with BCNS identified the patched 1 (PTCH1) gene, an inhibitor of the hedgehog signalling pathway, as being mutated in these patients. p53 is also mutated ...
It’s easy to spot hedgehogs in Alderney and not only because there are so many of them. More than half of the island’s prickly creatures are blonde. Their cream-coloured spines are the product of ...
The Madras hedgehog, found only in southern India, is considered a species of least concern on the IUCN Red List of threatened species. However, this elusive spiny species is poorly understood ...
The BHPS has suggested several wildlife-friendly ways to help hedgehogs. These include letting the edges of gardens grow wild, adding hedgehog highways, making ponds safe, looking out for litter, ...
In 2020, hedgehogs were put on the International Union for Conservation of Nature red list as vulnerable to extinction in Great Britain. The charity said it uses intensive care incubators to ...