More than 20 hazel dormice have been reintroduced to Leicestershire as part of a project to boost the species' declining ...

Dormice are considered a staple of the English countryside but they are under threat (Picture: Getty) The common dormouse is ‘vulnerable to extinction’ in Britain, according to a new report ...

Rare hazel dormice released to create Leicestershire’s only known population - The tiny mammals have been reintroduced to ...

The authors of the new report, which was commissioned by The People's Trust for Endangered Species, claim the edible dormouse has been largely overlooked as a threat to the British countryside in ...

A conservation charity has urged the public to scour woodlands for half-eaten hazelnuts to help track down and record the whereabouts of the elusive, endangered dormouse. It is one of the glories of ...

Have you seen a dormouse? Not much meat on them, is there? You are confusing the native British dormouse with something called the glis-glis. My home area (the Vale of Aylesbury) has these things ...

dormice have long been one of the greatest delights of British nature. In the modern era, however, they are coming to represent something very different. A sleeping dormouse which goes into a ...

Professor Robbie McDonald, a colleague at the university, said humans may need to do more to save the British dormouse. “Dormice face a range of problems: climate change and habitat loss are ...

It is related to the endangered hazel dormouse, a native British species. The edible dormouse escaped from Lionel Walter Rothschild's private collection near Tring, Hertfordshire, in 1902.

The hazel dormouse population has decreased in the ... We can relate. Another British mammal under threat from extinction is the Scottish wildcat. There are only 35 left in the wild according ...

MAYA FOLKES: UK dormouse numbers have fallen due to the loss of their habitats over the past 100 years. The British dormouse population is now mainly in Southern England and Wales, which means that ...

Other creatures adults haven’t seen in their natural habitats include the dormouse (87 per cent), muntjac deer (82 per cent) and pipistrelle bat (84 per cent). Grass snakes remain unseen by 71 ...