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 majority ...

One of the UK’s rarest mammals has been sighted foraging for food in Wiltshire, with conservationists having captured its footprints as well. A hazel dormouse has been spotted foraging, with ...

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

Rare species of bees, voles and dormice are among the creatures earmarked for protection in a new environmental plan. North ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...