DOORS 7PM | SPEAKER 7.30PM

Emily Thrift is a fourth-year PhD student at the University of Sussex. Her research focuses on the presence of microplastics in wild terrestrial animals and the wider environment. Emily completed an MSci in Zoology at the University of Sussex.

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So, what’s on the menu for hedgehogs these days? Alongside their natural prey of beetles, worms, and slugs, there may be an unexpected ingredient — plastic.

This talk uncovers how plastic pollution makes its way to a hedgehog’s stomach. While Emily’s work has focussed on hedgehogs, her findings reveal how widespread microplastic pollution has become and how it is entering the food chains of wild animals and possibly humans.