{"id":63029,"date":"2026-10-18T22:36:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T22:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/sussex-wildlife-rescuers-back-hedgehogs-for-bank-of-england-notes\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T22:36:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T22:36:56","slug":"sussex-wildlife-rescuers-back-hedgehogs-for-bank-of-england-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/sussex-wildlife-rescuers-back-hedgehogs-for-bank-of-england-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sussex wildlife rescuers back hedgehogs for Bank of England notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b>Hedgehogs are worthy winners after topping a public vote on which mammals should feature on future Bank of England notes, Sussex wildlife rescuers have said.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The prickly creatures beat red foxes by 15,000 votes, with nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cwe8ld517ry3o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">half a million people taking part in the consultation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">East Sussex Wildlife Rescue and Ambulance Service, based at Whitesmith, near Chiddingly, is currently looking after 10 hedgehogs and said it was no surprise that hedgehogs had captured the public&#8217;s imagination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trevor Weeks, who runs the service, said each hedgehog had its own distinct personality. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There is nothing like the hedgehog anywhere else in the UK. They&#8217;re such a unique and individual animal,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When you watch them and study them, it&#8217;s amazing how individual every single hedgehog will be, having its own little characteristics, its own little mannerisms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vet Jasmin Gregory said the result reflected the affection many people had for the species.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s an animal that maybe is struggling a little bit, but people really adore,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said she hoped the vote would also raise awareness of Britain&#8217;s native wildlife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s something that we all know is there, but not many of the population have actually seen them, which is quite sad,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cq62y83n0dexo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hedgehogs are worthy winners after topping a public vote on which mammals should feature on future Bank of England notes, Sussex wildlife rescuers have said. The prickly creatures beat red foxes by 15,000 votes, with nearly half a million people taking part in the consultation. East Sussex Wildlife Rescue and Ambulance Service, based at Whitesmith, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[1026,278,13369,4093,4973,4182,2536],"class_list":["post-63029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","tag-bank","tag-england","tag-hedgehogs","tag-notes","tag-rescuers","tag-sussex","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63031,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63029\/revisions\/63031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}