A rare hazel dormouse has been captured on camera foraging for food at Longleat Safari Park in Wiltshire. The UK population of dormice has plunged in recent years due to habitat loss, but the ...

The sun came out in Wiltshire this week and the county has welcomed rare wildlife and also pancakes and spring re-openings.

A 21-year minitoring programme by hundreds of volunteers has been rewarded with tangible evidence that the endangered hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius) is showing signs of a comeback. Data ...

Several species have been identified as needing special protection, including the hazel dormouse, which could be encouraged to thrive by the use of nest boxes and reintroducing or relocating the ...

Housing developers Millers Homes have found a surprising diversity of wildlife in fields off the Lewes Road, on the outskirts of Haywards Heath.

Our two British species are markedly different. The smaller, native common or ‘hazel’ dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius) is more murine in appearance, whereas the much larger ‘edible’ variety (Myoxus ...

They’ve been residents since at least the last Ice Age. The hazel dormouse population has decreased in the UK by 75% over the last 25 years. However, there have been many efforts to bring it ...