University of Brighton staff and students are looking into hedgehog habitats on its campuses.

A university is rolling out new plans to help provide more safe spaces for hedgehogs across its campuses.

The University of Brighton said it wanted to help protect hedgehogs across its sites to try to combat rapidly falling population numbers across the UK.

Staff and students from the institution began a survey on Monday to track the number of hedgehogs across the university’s three campuses ahead of plans to turn green spaces into hedgehog havens.