Jacksons Fencing Launches New Product to Help Save Hedgehogs

Ashford, Kent, December 3, 2015 (Newswire.com) - A gravel board is the protective barrier between the ground and your fence. The newly designed Jacksons hedgehog gravel board is the same as a normal gravel board in every way but has a hole at one end, large enough to allow hedgehogs to pass from garden to garden. 

With the hedgehog population dropping a third in the last decade, this product will give hedgehogs the opportunity to roam freely between gardens at night, crucial for their survival as this enables them to forage for food and find mates in order to breed.

Jacksons Director, Andy Tune, commented: "When the issue of preserving the hedgehog population was brought to our attention, we understood the problem solid walls and fences could pose to hedgehogs. This new product offers our customers the opportunity to allow hedgehogs to safely travel through their gardens without compromising the integrity of the fence."

Andy Tune, Jacksons Director

Designed with a reinforcing strip along the top of the board to ensure it isn’t weakened by the hole and for use with all Jacksons fence panels and slotted fence posts (Jakposts). 

Jacksons Director, Andy Tune, commented: “When the issue of preserving the hedgehog population was brought to our attention, we understood the problem solid walls and fences could pose to hedgehogs.  This new product offers our customers the opportunity to allow hedgehogs to safely travel through their gardens without compromising the integrity of the fence.”

The hedgehog fence gravel board comes with the Jacksons Jakcure 25 year guarantee.  

Jacksons Fencing is a family business founded in 1947 in Kent. Today, it operates from three UK locations; Ashford, Bath and Chester and employs over 200 people in the design, manufacture and installation of timber and steel fencing, gates, environmental noise barriers, bollards, automation and access control systems. 

Jacksons believe that by designing and manufacturing products for a long service life and backing them with industry-leading guarantees not only offers customers lowest lifetime costs but also benefits the environment in which we live.