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‘Les P'tits Kipik’: Inside a Paris suburb's unlikely hedgehog sanctuary

This woman has transformed her home into a sanctuary for urban hedgehogs threatened by habitat fragmentation, cars and pesticides.

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00:14There is a big problem with the population of hérissons in France and Europe.
00:21The fragmentation of the territory prevents people from one place to another
00:25to try to nourish themselves, to seek a partner to reproduce.
00:28So they are obligated to take the routes, and unfortunately, they don't want to destroy themselves.
00:50The pesticides are also a big problem,
00:53because the pesticides will, of course, kill the food of hérissons,
00:58which are the insects and all the little insects that there are in the gardens and in the fields.
01:04And so, the hérissons no longer find food and are hungry or poisoned by the different pesticides.
01:13There is also a lot of problems with all the dangers in the gardens,
01:21the dangers of the gardens.
01:23There are a lot of hérissons that are carried out by the tondeuses, the débroussailleuses, the rotophiles.
01:30Hello, Mr. Eliphas.
01:39I'm gonna do a little bit of a problem.
01:41I'm trying to defend myself.
01:42He's trying to defend myself, in the boule.
01:43And when he puts it on the boule, you can't do the rest of the field.
01:47It's not an animal attacking or aggressive.
01:50Well, there's a lot of pesticides here, and there's a lot of pesticides.
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