🦔 We are thrilled to announce that @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social will be the opening speaker at our Nature Festival this Saturday. Always full of hilarious anecdotes and fun facts, 'Hedgehog Hugh' will be telling us how hedgehogs can save the world! 💪 See you there! 🌍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

Want to be in with a chance of winning a copy of the new RSPB Pocket Book of Hedgehogs? Enter on @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social's Substack now: hughwarwick.substack.com/p/prize-give...

Want to win a copy of my new book? Just answer (correctly!!) one very easy question ... hughwarwick.substack.com/p/prize-give...

Want to do a hedgehog PhD? Want a hedgehog on a banknote? And want to know how I beat Muhammad Ali? All in the latest update ... hughwarwick.substack.com/p/it-was-eit...

some disturbing new research into what we are feeding our pets and the wildlife we are trying to help ... hughwarwick.substack.com/p/are-you-fe...

I am so thrilled to announce that @lfcr.bsky.social are the winners of the most prestigious prize open to football teams in the UK ... (sorry @arsenalfc.bsky.social ) that's right, they have won the 'Hedgehog Cup'!!! Link in first comment for more ... @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social

Wonderful night with @londonsymphony.bsky.social - with Sir Simon Rattle and Lucy Crowe weaving magic between them. 4 Last songs and Mahler 4 - and the Roberto Gerhard piece was astounding ... amazing to think it was only 12 years after the Strauss - a different universe!

Still recovering from the wonderful @woodhq.bsky.social festival - had a great time hosting the Kindling stage - loads of brilliant speakers ... @robinince.bsky.social @kityates.bsky.social @helenpilcher.bsky.social @edfinch.bsky.social among many others hughwarwick.substack.com/p/wood-was-g...

The world can feel so overwhelming, but hedgehogs remind us we’re not all entirely powerless. Simple acts can help them on their journeys — and for those of us who can, that kind of everyday kindness is often where our care for a much harder world begins... hughwarwick.substack.com/p/hedgehog-a...

Hedgehog Awareness Week! Join in ... sign up to the Hedgehog Pledge ... find ways to help through the @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social hughwarwick.substack.com/p/hedgehog-a...

I went on a Prospect Cottage Pilgrimage while down in Dungeness - such a beautiful, bleak, organic, and industrial landscape! hughwarwick.substack.com/p/a-prospect... @rspb.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @dungenessbirdobs.bsky.social #birds #nuclear #nature #DerekJarman

cracked it on the first day!!! But still the charity can VERY usefully use your donations.

Bluebells - went for a walk with my dog and my camera - was not disappointed!!!

Writing Cull of the Wild forced me to think really rather hard! Nothing was particularly simple... this is a clip from the talk I gave @greengathering.bsky.social - thanks @camerazoe.bsky.social - link to that in the comments - as well as to my substack account where all sorts of things pop up!

Do you ever find it hard to speak to people with very different opinions? I certainly struggle to burst out of my bubble ... here is a short clip of a film which is linked to in my latest Substack ... hughwarwick.substack.com/p/bursting-b...

Bursting bubbles ... Talk from Hedgehog Hugh (warwick) @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social covers an important theme - how we best communicate with people of differing views. open.substack.com/pub/hughwarw...

I wrote about my lawn being 'spangled with dandies' - well, now the clocks have come! Which is your favourite? open.substack.com/pub/hughwarw...

Spangled with Dandies! My lawn is rebelling against the Cult of Tidiness (in fact, so is my house!) If you would like to read all about this rebellion and also get a sneak peak at who is coming along to this year on my Kindling stage @woodhq.bsky.social find the link in the comments!!

We’ve moved into bigger premises🏡✨ now we need more hutches to increase capacity🦔🐾 A wonderful group of Newquay students have set up a crowdfunder for us —please help us build more hutches💚 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/homes-for-hedgehogs @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social

Many thanks to: - @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social for his kind opening words -Truro High School for girls for providing the shuttle bus -Watergate Bay Hotel for providing parking - Sodexo for the delicious buffet - RAF St Mawgan for providing the gazebo -All of you for making this Hogspital possible🫶🦔🐾

You might have heard the news about wildlife appearing on UK banknotes ... well ... I have a plan!! Thank you to Nick Cope for his wonderful Hugh (the hedgehog!) - have a read and a share and let's get hedgehogs where they belong! hughwarwick.substack.com/p/prickly-ba...

really good piece from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social - as ever! Doomed to repeat, we are! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#WorldBookDay - apparently - well - here is my contribution, so far. Two more out this year ... and another one on which I am working when not getting distracted by unrelated ideas that then end up on substack ... I will point you to the comments for the link to my most recent piece

Lovely write up of the memorial for the wonderful Romain Roch, who died in January, aged 22..poet, anarchist, lover of the wild and one of the kindest people I have ever met. In these shattered times, love and kindest are radical and necessary.

‘Grow your heart to the size of the world.’ It is a risky business, falling in love - with people, with animals, with the world - but we have to take the chance - we cannot afford to give up. Some words (link in comments) on the loss of a bright light ..

A Close Shave - wildlife hospitals do so much amazing work ... this #hedgehog lost the top of a patch of spines ...a VERY lucky hedgehog! Does Bluesky squelch substack links? Just in case putting the story in the comments ... actually - if anyone knows, please tell me!

A Close Shave ... Hugh Warwick @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social on hedghogs & other beautiful animals at an animal rescue centre open.substack.com/pub/hughwarw...

Turns out that Oxford is a hot spot for beauty in/of the beasts 🤣 The only reasonable thing is to read them both!

Thrilled that @jowimpenny.bsky.social has a new book - so much good in Beauty of the Beasts ... even if the title reminds me of something!!! hughwarwick.substack.com/p/beauty-of-...

A love story - not traditional - but still a love story. hughwarwick.substack.com/p/who-gives-... @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @animalaid.org.uk @huntsabs.org.uk @leagueacs.bsky.social

So great to see my photos out there in the wild!!

I know that many of you will have been wondering what to get me for Christmas!!!! Well - it is easy, free ... and hopefully something that will bring you interest and entertainment ... sign up to my Substack! hughwarwick.substack.com

quite a lot of things have popped up - an article I had forgotten writing for my old school magazine, the first view of the cover of my new book, and a reminder that I will be talking about hedgehogs and hibernation on BBC Radio 4 tomorrow at midday ... oh - and a link to latest update in comments

#Hedgehog time - grab a calendar, question the life choices of a vandal, dry your boots and hair, skate with prickles, and help count hedgehogs ... trust me, it makes sense ... have a read! open.substack.com/pub/hughwarw...

just written about the day ... and what a day! Thank you to everyone - from @helenczerski.bsky.social and @tomheap.bsky.social in Bristol, to the wonderfully supportive team at @zslofficial.bsky.social who made it all happen! hughwarwick.substack.com/p/hedgehogs-...

A magnificent shout out to @oxfordnuj.bsky.social member @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social , currently heading to London to receive the Clarivate Award for Communicating Zoology, from the Zoological Society of London, for his book ‘Cull of the Wild’ #oxford #journalism @zslofficial.bsky.social

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Dartmoor, harvest mice, choirs, lichen, moss, waterfalls ... and Derek Gow! open.substack.com/pub/hughwarw...

If variety is the spice of life, then last week was a wonderful curry! open.substack.com/pub/hughwarw... @mertoncollchapel.bsky.social @mertoncollegechoir.bsky.social @brittensinfonia.bsky.social @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social

I had a listen to this ... thank you Stephen for a really interesting conversation ... I went places I was not expecting!!

100% agree with @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social. Low level of literacy and low level of willingness to learn or listen. The notion that nature can jog on somewhere else, or thrive in just-planted woods is either stupidity or wilful fantasy and lies. #planningandinfrastructurebill

“There is a very low level of ecological literacy being displayed by ministers,” I have written about his, @magdalenoxford.bsky.social #RemembranceDay @philippullmanreal.bsky.social @pricklesandpaws.bsky.social #hedgehogs and much more! hughwarwick.substack.com/p/planning-a...

If you have a few spare minutes, this is a wonderfully inspiring short film about two very impressive young conservationists making a difference for harvest mice. A great reminder of the passion and hope young people can inject into things! www.facebook.com/reel/2502952...

I have written a couple of new pieces on Substack - first about the impact of bonfires/fireworks on wildlife (and my dog!) and then the amazing work of two young nature-nerds who have managed to do great things for harvest mice (and got @chrisgpackham.bsky.social nibbled!) hughwarwick.substack.com

Than you for inviting me. That was a really stimulating audience.

Private Eye nailing it.

Join us this Friday for a talk and book signing from local writer and ecologist, @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social. You can join us in person in the School of Geography or online. Reserve your place now: bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiv... @ecioxford.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk @oxconservationsoc.bsky.social

Join us this Friday for a talk and book signing from local writer and ecologist, @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social You can join us in person in the School of Geography or online. Reserve your place now: bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiv... @ecioxford.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk

Visited the amazing @sheprethwpark.bsky.social #hedgehog #hospital - and then wrote about one of the major threats these gorgeous animals face - especially at this time of year - bonfires … have a read … open.substack.com/pub/hughwarw... @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social

Ellie's work was fascinating - and it is wonderful that @ocmevents.bsky.social exists to bring such things to life!