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I posted about my trip on Twitter.[qh]
我在推特上发布了关于我旅行的消息。[qh]
An old mate, Choel, who lived two floors beneath me in the flats and still lives locally now, got in touch to say the hedgehogs were gone.[qh]
一位老朋友，乔尔，他住在我楼下两层的公寓里，现在仍然住在当地，他联系我说刺猬不见了。[qh]
The council had signed a private finance initiative (PFI) with a company to manage the area.[qh]
该委员会已与一家公司签署了一项私人融资计划（PFI），以管理该地区。[qh]
They felled trees, paved over gardens and bulldozed the small park with the cherry trees.[qh]
他们砍伐树木，铺平花园，用推土机推平了有樱桃树的小公园。[qh]
They built the residents an allotment, but erected a huge fence around it, meaning hedgehogs couldn't get in or out.[qh]
他们为居民建造了一个小菜地，但在周围竖起了一个巨大的围栏，这意味着刺猬无法进出。[qh]
She sent me photos of entire gardens in skips, of upended trees in full blossom with bird feeders still hanging from their branches.[qh]
她给我发了一些照片，照片上是整个花园被铲除，还有一些盛开的树被连根拔起，树枝上还挂着喂鸟器。[qh]
She told me she had found 10 dead hedgehogs, and others out in the day and underweight.[qh]
她告诉我，她发现了10只死去的刺猬，还有一些在白天出现且体重不足。[qh]
Eventually, she started rehoming them, going out at night and rounding them up to take to a rescue centre, where they were fed and watered before being released somewhere they actually had a chance of living.[qh]
最终，她开始给它们找新家，晚上出去把它们聚集起来带到救援中心，在那里它们会得到食物和水，然后被释放到一个它们实际上有生存机会的地方。[qh]
She regrets leaving it so long before she acted; she wishes she could have saved the ones that died.[qh]
她后悔在采取行动之前等了这么久；她本希望自己能够拯救那些死去的刺猬。[qh]
But she did save seven.[qh]
但是她确实救了七只。[qh]
I'm grateful she noticed them at all.[qh]
我很感激她注意到了它们。[qh]
We cry habitat loss, but it's theft, really – no one is so careless as to lose their home.[qh]
我们为栖息地的丧失而哭泣，但实际上这是盗窃——没有人会粗心大意到失去家园的地步。[qh]
We call it progress, but how dare we?[qh]
我们称之为进步，但我们怎么敢呢？[qh]
How many people, throughout the planning process, will have thought of or cared about hedgehogs?[qh]
在整个规划过程中，会有多少人想到或关心刺猬呢？[qh]
Or considered any of the other residents, both human and wild?[qh]
或者考虑过其他居民吗，无论是人类还是野生动物？[qh]
The management company would have conducted an ecology survey, no doubt.[qh]
毫无疑问，管理公司会进行生态调查。[qh]
But, as is often the case, it was probably done in winter, when the hedgehogs were hibernating.[qh]
但是，情况常常是这样的，它可能是在冬天完成的，那时刺猬正在冬眠。[qh]
Did any residents other than Choel and me know there were hedgehogs on that estate?[qh]
除了我和乔尔之外，还有其他居民知道那个庄园里有刺猬吗？[qh]
Did anyone care?[qh]
有人在乎吗？[qh]
The council paved over the gardens to save money on maintenance.[qh]
委员会铺平了花园，以节省维护费用。[qh]
The trees and park were lost because the car parks that replaced them can be a source of income.[qh]
树木和公园消失了，因为取代它们的停车场可以成为收入来源。[qh]
The residents placed there by the council would not necessarily have known or thought about those habitats, making them so much easier to destroy.[qh]
地方议会安置在那里的居民不一定了解或考虑过那些栖息地，这使得它们更容易被破坏。[qh]
