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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Image: A sleepy dormouse is famously a character at the ... It has also just launched the Great British Hedgerow Survey, asking farmers to assess the condition of their hedgerows, which help ...

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 ...

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 ...

The garden dormouse is listed as near threatened by the IUCN and is endemic to Europe. Due to habitat loss, the population of dormice is declining. A highly nocturnal species, the garden dormouse ...