{"id":43025,"date":"2017-02-06T13:01:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T06:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hedgehogs-now-a-rare-garden-sight-as-british-populations-continue-to-decline\/"},"modified":"2017-02-06T13:06:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T06:06:46","slug":"hedgehogs-now-a-rare-garden-sight-as-british-populations-continue-to-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hedgehogs-now-a-rare-garden-sight-as-british-populations-continue-to-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Hedgehogs now a rare garden sight as British populations continue to decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nMore than half of people surveyed had never seen a hedgehog, once common in UK gardensThe plight of the hedgehog in Britain appears to be worsening, with a new survey revealing a further decline in garden sightings.The spiky creature was once a common sight, with the population estimated at 30 million in the 1950s. But that has plummeted to fewer than one million today, with a third of this loss thought to have taken place in the past decade.  Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2017\/feb\/06\/hedgehogs-now-a-rare-garden-sight-as-british-populations-continue-to-decline\" target=\"_blank\">Hedgehogs now a rare garden sight as British populations continue to decline<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; More than half of people surveyed had never seen a hedgehog, once common in UK&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-bbX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6374,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/homeowners-do-your-bit-for-hedgehogs-letters\/","url_meta":{"origin":43025,"position":0},"title":"Homeowners, do your bit for hedgehogs | Letters","date":"March 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r We were saddened, but not surprised, to read that, according to a BBC Gardeners\u2019 World survey, almost half of British people have never seen a hedgehog in their garden (Report, 29 February). 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