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We are seeking funding for a new orphan unit to accommodate up to 100 animals, a new feeding station for juvenile and pre-release smaller orphans and a release pen to acclimatise larger orphaned animals, prior to release back into the wild, keeping them away from human contact as much as possible.
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Situation
Each spring, we take in hundreds of tiny orphaned animals, often in desperate condition. Our volunteers care for them until they are healthy and old enough to be released back into the wild, but our current shed is too small for the increasing numbers of orphaned animals that are coming into our centre, very old and starting to become unfit for purpose. We rear all species of British wildlife from badger cubs, to baby hedgehogs and birds. At peak times, during Spring we take up to 60 per day.
Solution
Most orphans are tiny and helpless and must be housed in incubators in the new purpose built shed. Bigger mammals, like badgers and foxes, need to be transferred to the special release pens to acclimatise, away from humans. We can then return more animals back to their habitats, boosting depleted numbers. The conservation need is acute; according to a recent Mammal Society survey, 1 in 5 wild UK mammals are at high risk of extinction by 2030. Hedgehogs have declined by 97% since the 1950s
