“In areas of preferred habitat (amenity grassland), counts of hedgehogs more than doubled over a 5-year period from the start of badger culling (from 0.9 ha−1pre-cull to 2.4 ha−1 post-cull), whereas hedgehog counts did not change where there was no badger culling (0.3–0.3 hedgehogs ha−1).”
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0095477
250% increase after 5 years of culling! Couldn’t agree more mate.