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Once a common sight in France, the hedgehog could soon disappear from the country entirely.

One danger for these nocturnal and timid creatures is being run over. Between 700,000 and 1 million hedgehogs are killed this way each year.

But that is not the only threat. Nature expert Philippe Jourde cites the expansion of cities and road networks as reasons behind a big loss in numbers over the last two decades.

鈥楾heir population is in a bad way everywhere, and it鈥檚 especially linked to agricultural pesticides and changes to their natural habitats鈥�.

By some estimations the French population of hedgehogs could be entirely wiped out by 2050.