I set a Fenn Mk IV spring trap under my hedge just for the rats: the morning I lifted the cover, it wasn’t a rat holding the bar down
One grey morning, lifting a tunnel cover expecting a dead rat, a gardener discovered a hedgehog trapped instead—a gut-punch moment far more common than most realize. As Britain’s hedgehog populations plummet, accidental trap deaths have become a conservation crisis hiding in plain sight, yet the fix is surprisingly simple.