Ep. 41 – Ecologist Hugh Warwick on Loving Your Hedgehogs

When We Talk About Animals by Law, Environment & Animals Program at Yale Law School

May 27, 202157:53Science & Medicine

Hedgehogs, despite being consistently voted the most beloved mammal in the United Kingdom, have suffered great population losses as industrial agriculture and other human impacts destroy their hedgerow habitats. Our late...

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