As part of the Mayor of London’s Rewild Fund (Rewild London Fund | London Wildlife Trust) in 2022, London HogWatch worked with a range of community partners from 13 SINCs in the North Camden area, to assess distributions of hedgehogs and other important wildlife species to help target areas that act as critical corridors of movement between SINCs. The project aimed to fill the knowledge gap on the extent of hedgehog distributions between Hampstead Heath and Regent’s Park by combining information from camera-trap surveys in seven SINCs, and a historical knowledge survey Hedgehog and wildlife survey (google.com). 

The data collected from this project helped identify five potential wildlife corridors which could extend and strengthen hedgehog populations by linking Hampstead Heath with other surrounding SINCs. These were: Hampstead Heath to Waterlow Park SINC, Hampstead Heath to Kentish Town City Farm SINC, Hampstead Heath to Branch Hill SINC, Hampstead Heath to Barnet SINCs through Hampstead Garden Suburb, and Hampstead Heath to Haringey SINCs through Highgate. Local environmental groups and SINC managers are now working on ways to implement improving connectivity between these SINCs. The historical knowledge survey has also now been extended to London wide and is still being utilised to collate important citizen science data.