Here in Overstrand, we are already fighting the Garden Centre application because of the danger it poses to hedgehogs and the fragile network of wildlife corridors and green spaces they rely on.
Now another battle is unfolding in East Anglia.
Plans for a vital hedgehog and wildlife hospital have been refused.
So let’s be honest about what is happening. In one place, habitat is put at risk. In another, a place trying to save injured wildlife is blocked. Different sites, same disgraceful pattern: hedgehogs lose, while planners and developers carry on as if wildlife is an inconvenience to be brushed aside.
Hedgehogs are not disposable. Wildlife corridors are not optional. Rescue centres are not luxuries. They are all part of the same fight for survival.
That is why I am asking you to support and share this petition calling for planning permission to be secured for this vital East Anglia wildlife hospital:
We are seeing, again and again, how nature is pushed to the back of the queue until local people speak up and force it back into the conversation.
Please sign. Please share. Please stand with the people fighting for hedgehogs in Suffolk, just as we are fighting for them here in Overstrand.
Because if we do not fight for them, who will?
Maggie
P.S. You can watch Overstrand hedgehogs on my YouTube channel Vanlife Volunteers every night.