{"id":400121,"date":"2026-03-23T19:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/400121\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T19:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:07:12","slug":"les-ptits-kipik-inside-a-paris-suburbs-unlikely-hedgehog-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/400121\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Les P&#8217;tits Kipik\u2019: Inside a Paris suburb&#8217;s unlikely hedgehog sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  By&amp;nbsp<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/profiles\/2562\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Angela Symons<\/a>&amp;nbspwith&amp;nbsp<b>AP<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n         Published on<br \/>\n            23\/03\/2026 &#8211; 7:02 GMT+1\n            <\/p>\n<p>A French woman created a hedgehog rescue centre at her home near Paris, where she has treated more than a 1,000 hedgehogs in eight years.<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>It started in 2018 when Sara Stahl and her husband found two motherless baby hedgehogs in their garden in Orsay, a picturesque village in the Chevreuse valley near Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Stahl realised there was only one rescue centre for wild animals in the whole region of Paris and she decided to step in and created &#8216;Les P&#8217;tits Kipik&#8217; which translates to &#8220;the little ones that spike&#8221;, a rescue centre in the garden of her house.<\/p>\n<p>She created several enclosures and a care-providing centre with two machines for assisted breathing and scales for weighing them. She cleans their enclosures and provides them with food every day.<\/p>\n<p>Humans are responsible for 91% of hedgehog deaths<\/p>\n<p>Humans are the biggest danger to hedgehogs, responsible of 91 per cent of their deaths. Only 9 per cent are due to their natural predators: the badger, the great horned owl or the brown bear.<\/p>\n<p>There are many ways that people can help the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/09\/14\/dogs-cats-and-hedgehogs-how-pets-and-animals-are-helping-with-climate-communication\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>hedgehog<\/strong><\/a> populations, for example people with fences around their gardens should make a little hole to let them through so they don&#8217;t end up on roads.<\/p>\n<p>One of the more recent problems was the robot lawn mowers that people operate during night time, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/04\/02\/dead-hedgehogs-forever-chemicals-pcb-pollution\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>hedgehogs<\/strong><\/a> are active, and of course the increasing use of pesticides.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of 2024, the Western European Hedgehog has moved from &#8216;Least Concern&#8217; to &#8216;Near Threatened&#8217; on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/10\/24\/plant-and-animal-extinctions-slow-but-experts-warn-human-activity-still-poses-significant-\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>IUCN Red List<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Video editor<strong> \u2022 Denis Loctier<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By&amp;nbspAngela Symons&amp;nbspwith&amp;nbspAP Published on 23\/03\/2026 &#8211; 7:02 GMT+1 A French woman created a hedgehog rescue centre at her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[273],"tags":[12360,100,18,42594,19,17,6119,133,461,31052],"class_list":["post-400121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animal-protection","tag-animals","tag-eire","tag-extinction","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-rescue","tag-science","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-conservation"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116280062430980775","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}