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Jan 2022
Last Updated: 26/01/2022
Harrogate residents campaign for hedgehog signs
People on Forest Lane and Forest Moor Road petitioned Harrogate and Knaresborough MP Andrew Jones and North Yorkshire County Council on the matter. The county council has now made its first application to the Department for Transport to install hedgehog warning signs.
Andrew Jones holding a hedgehog sign.
Residents concerned about the number of hedgehogs being killed on a Harrogate street have applied for signs alerting motorists to the danger.
People on Forest Lane and Forest Moor Road petitioned Harrogate and Knaresborough MP Andrew Jones and North Yorkshire County Council. Hedgehogs are included in the list of animals vulnerable to extinction.
As a result, the county council has made its first application to the Department for Transport to install signs.
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Mr Jones, a Conservative who was a minister in the department when the warning signs were introduced, said on his Community News website:
“Biodiversity is important. That is why I want to back campaigns like this. Residents in the Forest Moor area have told me that injured, and more often dead, hedgehogs are a regular sight.
"If these signs just encourage motorists to pay that bit more attention in the area we can help reduce the numbers and do our bit to increase the vulnerable hedgehog population.”
Mr Jones said he "will be encouraging a quick and positive response".
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