The beloved hazel dormouse is in 'catastrophic decline' – as its numbers have fallen 70 per cent since 2000. A major report on the sleepy rodent has revealed that it has become extinct in 20 English ...

A thousand hazel dormice have now been reintroduced into woodland sites in the UK in efforts to save the tiny threatened mammals, conservationists said. The conservation milestone, in a national ...

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It's one of Britain's rarest mammals and on the brink of extinction due to habitat loss. But the adorable hazel dormouse – hardly ever sighted by humans due to its scarcity – is receiving a ...

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Wildlife charity volunteer Lorna Griffiths reports on a highly successful national reintroduction programme of a once extinct dormouse..... Over the last 50 years 60% of some 3,148 UK species have ...

Britain’s population of hazel dormice has halved since 2000, a report by the People’s Trust for Endangered Species warns. The tiny but endearing mammals have seen numbers fall by 51% since the new ...

A RARE dormouse has been found after wildlife enthusiasts spent nine years searching for it. The small band of conservationists began looking for the hazel dormouse after half-eaten nuts suggested ...

A six-mile stretch of hedgerows and woods in the Yorkshire Dales have been improved and connected in an effort to create better habitat for the UK’s endangered hazel dormouse. Hazel dormice were once ...