Don't Rake Leaves T-Shirt

Don’t Rake Leaves T-Shirt

Hedgehogs are an endangered species, but how can we help them? The answer can be more simple than you think: keep a pile of leaves in your garden!

This T-shirt pack includes 14 shirts: 7 colours for women, and 7 for men. This is a standalone T-shirt, and will not replace anything in your game. The zip file includes the two sets separately, so you can decide to install either or both.

T-Shirt designed for BrittaMA, hope you enjoy the shirt!

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Hedgehog population has been declining all over Europe. They are considered ‘near threatened’ in Norway and Sweden, ‘Vulnerable’ in the UK, and ‘Endangered’ in the Netherlands. Urbanisation has caused habitat loss and fragmentation, often through the loss of biodiversity. At the same time, rural areas have seen a decline in hedgehogs through intensive agriculture and intraguild predators.

In order to help hedgehogs make it safely through winter, they need piles of leaves and grasses. Gardens often lack appropriate nesting materials. Keeping leaves and leaf piles in your garden gives hedgehogs a safe place to stay during the coldest moments of the year. If you’d like to take that one step further, you can cultivate an overgrown corner in your garden that you leave undisturbed. Preferably with some log piles. Not only would that create a nesting ground, it also attracts smaller bugs that serve as food sources. Hedgehogs are lactose-intolerant, do not leave milk out for them.

Don't throw out your leaves, and help the hedgehogs!


Sources

Korslund, Lars Mørch, Marius Stener Floden, Milla Mona Sophie Albertsen, Amelie Landsverk, Karen Margrete Vestgård Løkken, Beate Strøm Johansen. “Home Range, Movement, and Nest Use of Hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) in an Urban Environment Prior to Hibernation.” Animals 14, no. 130. (December 2024): 1-17. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14010130.

Hedgehog Street. “Hedgehog-friendly garden features.” Accessed January 30, 2024. https://www.hedgehogstreet.org/help...arden-features/