Monday, 2 November 2020

The small English town united by the world's largest hedgehog highway

The Guardian has a wonderfully whimsical story about the town of Kirtlington in Oxfordshire, UK. The small village underwent a massive infrastructural overhaul in 2016 … specifically, for the hedgehogs who live there alongside the roughly 1,000 human residents.

More than 12,000 hedgehog holes have been created as part of the UK's hedgehog highway network, and Kirtlington has one of the most creative routes on the map.

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