VIDEO: Hedgehog significant decrease in the number

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Hedgehog shrine opens to stop the massive population decline

17 March 2015 Last updated at 08:02 GMT

There has been a dramatic decline in the number of hedgehogs in the UK.

The latest figures show that the number was reduced by more than a third in the last decade,

The first major hedgehog sanctuary in the UK opened in Solihull, in an attempt to arrest the decline.

Claire Marshall reports.

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