2/7/2025–|Last update: 22:35 (Mecca time)
The idea of converting Wimbledon tennis heroics into housing for harvesting mice to protect them from extinction is gaining increased momentum, although it is not a completely new initiative.
In cooperation with the Wildlife Fund in Avon, Glamorghan and Norethamberland, balls were donated to protect harvesting mice.
This “genius initiative” has been in fact for several years, as Wimbledon has participated with various organizations to preserve wildlife, especially those that focus on harvesting mice.
The initiative started in 2000 when harvesting ran became threatened with extinction after losing their homeland as a result of agriculture and floods.
Every year, Wimbledon uses more than 55,000 tennis balls during the tournament. While some of them are re -used or sold, a large part is donated to environmental preservation clubs throughout Britain.
The advocates of preserving the environment puncture a small hole in the used tennis balls, then they often prove them on columns or put them in long plants, about one meter from the ground.
Harvesting mice, which are small objects that do not exceed 4 grams, are naturally built by complex nests of woven grass. However, modern agriculture, urban expansion methods and events such as floods reduce their natural habitats significantly.
The hollow and resistant internal part of the weather balls is a warm and closed places that these mice prefer to reproduce and shelter.
The high situation helps to protect them from predators such as foxes, a wedding and prey, which are greater than passing through the small hole.
