Rejected petition Change laws to protect Hedgehogs

Change the Laws to keep Hedgehogs safe, create Hedgehog safe zones like large fields with fences and hedgerows in or walls to stop Hedgehogs going onto roads as roads and Road kill is the main reason for hedgehog decline and why they are on the red list

More details

Hedgerows are leading Hedgehogs to roads , as hedgerows are put up to stop or prevent larger animals going in to roads but in wet weather Slugs & Snails are found in large numbers in over grown areas by roads. The Hedgehogs main food source and then they go into roads.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

You may wish to sign the following petitions, which call for similar action:

Add hedgehogs to schedule 5 of the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/709054

Introduce legal standards for hedgehog houses
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/716755

Make hedgehog highways mandatory on all new fencing.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/701939

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 26 February 2025
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.