A rare hazel dormouse has been captured on camera foraging for food at Longleat Safari Park in Wiltshire. The UK population ...

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

Folklore asserts that the little golden derrymouse is immune to the venom of vipers. Dormice (the plural somehow sounds especially pleasing) frequent the fringes of deciduous woodlands – a similar ...

Data from the National Dormouse Monitoring Programme, organised by the People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES), shows that the decline in dormice had slowed to 9% between 2002 and 2008; when the ...

Destruction and fragmentation of their ancient woodland habitat have seen dormice disappear from half of their breeding range over the last 100 years. Dormice hibernate from the end of October ...

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 ...

Anton Trexler (Germany) peers up into the darkness as a dormouse pauses on a garden ladder. Dormice were frequent nocturnal inhabitants of Anton’s garden in Wiesbaden, Germany. One night, he saw one ...

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