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Wrocław steps up its ‘keep hedgehogs safe’ campaign by rolling out more road sign warnings

The signs, which depict a graphic of a single hedgehog in a black outline beneath the capitalised “Warning Hedgehogs”, was the winning design voted on by local residents. ZDiUM Wrocław

The signs, which depict a graphic of a single hedgehog in a black outline beneath the capitalised “Warning Hedgehogs”, was the winning design voted on by local residents.

Sleeping in a winter wonder home! Kraków uni builds hibernation homes for hedgehogs

Around 18 metres long and 1.5 metres wide, the housing complex was designed to resemble a mini-version of the AGH University of Science and Technology’s building, so that, as the organisers put it, the hedgehogs “immediately feel that they live at AGH”.

Adorable hedgehogs get winter cheer with comfy leafy homes after council bans leaf raking

Wrocław’s Deputy President Adam Zawada announced that leaves falling from trees and shrubs will remain untouched in areas indicated by special signs in order for the hedgehog population to have places to sleep.

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Priceless painting looted during WWII returned to Poland from Japan

The first war-loss to be repatriated from the Far East, the Madonna with Child painted by the Italian master Alessandro Turchi at the end of the 16th century was stolen by the Germans during the war from the extensive Lubomirski art collection in Przeworsk.

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