Bicycle messenger on a mission to save the hedgehogs of Krakow

Tender loving care: Andrzej Kuziomski examining a hedgehog at the Kuziomski Igliwiak Foundation for hedgehogs in Krakow, Poland. Kuziomski, founder of the Igliwiak Foundation, looks after sick and wounded hedgehogs.

In Poland, hedgehogs find a saviour in former bike courier.

Too weak to stand on his feet after swallowing poison for garden slugs, Smoky the hedgehog is fighting for his life. Thanks to a devoted Polish animal lover, he has a chance. Andrzej Kuziomski set up Poland’s first and only hedgehog shelter after he – in his job as a bicycle courier – came across hundreds of the small, quilled mammals that had been killed or maimed during run-ins with humans.