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Hedgehog poo could hold important secrets about local biodiversity

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par Sophie Lund Rasmussen, Research fellow in Ecology and Conservation, University of Oxford

Biodiversity, the rich variety of life found on Earth, is vanishing. I’m a conservation scientist keen to monitor this loss to better understand where efforts to reverse it will be most effective. And I might have hit on a novel solution.

I study European hedgehogs, the popular spiky mammals that inhabit our gardens. Hedgehog populations are declining massively, with an estimated loss of up to 75% in the rural…

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