Helen Mark took a trip to the ECOS centre to find out more about protecting and replanting hedgerows.
Neil Folkes from the ECOS Nature Park
The Beauty of Hedgerows
And of course, birds love hedges and that's good - because there's about 73, 000 miles of them in Northern Ireland. And if you don't look after hedgerows, they get all gappy and bare and then that's no use for all the insects and mammals that live in them. So - at the Ecos Nature Park in Ballymena, they're very keen to teach people about hedges.
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