Ghosts in the Hedgerow: who or what is responsible for our favourite mammal’s decline

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Also there were too many asterisks in the text with the explanation at the bottom of the page which got to me fairly quickly, Some of these were not related to the plot and again just puns. I generally enjoyed it and it’s an easy read however there were too many horrible puns in the book which got annoying after a while. The style comes with no lack of substance – the author is a respected academic and author of numerous scientific papers on wildlife conservation – everything here is backed up by solid science. Tom Moorhouse is brilliant at weaving complex ecological ideas into an easily accessible and very entertaining form - Ghosts in the Hedgerow is a delight. Charles Foster, author of Cry of the Wild, Being a Human and A Little Brown Sea A wonderfully entertaining and intriguing book.

In other words, hedgehogs may have overcome each threat individually, but together they have caused a once abundant species to dwindle over time. By turns hilarious and heart-breaking, Ghosts in the Hedgerow is a triumph of accessible science writing.Alan Wiseman in "The World Without Us" provides the answer for Tom Moorhouse and A Hedgehog Whodunnit "We Dunnitt" as we continue to eradicate species from the planet. Who or what is responsible for the disappearance of so many thousands of hedgehogs in recent decades? The increasing grim plight of the hedgehog in the UK landscape tells us a great deal about modern agricultural practices and collapsing biodiversity. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

A final chapter, complete with contributions from hedgehog conservation experts, equips the reader with the toolkit required to try and coax our beloved hedgehogs back. Tom has written a thorough, but very readable assessment of the challenges posed by the 20th century and what we can do to help the hapless 'Hedgie'. characterising the book will depict the author holding the encased last hedgehog in a glass jar crying out did we get the DNA?

Ghosts in the Hedgerow offers an in-depth, insightful and impossibly funny look at the plight of the hedgehog. They have some surprising fans – Moorhouse tells us that Dolly Parton is a fan of the hedgehogs of Kirtlington. His work has focussed on the conservation ecology of water voles, the management of signal crayfish, hedgehog conservation and the impacts of wildlife.