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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 ...

Nine rare hazel dormice have been given a clean bill of health by wildlife vets at conservation charity ZSL. It paves the way for their release into the wild next month as part of a national effort to ...

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THEY are so tiny and they spend most of the time asleep. But now the lovely furry mammals could block plans for a multi-million pound log cabin holiday village in Hampshire. The tiny creature has been ...

Bayreuth researchers have shown for the first time that the dormouse, which is strictly protected in Germany, not only uses woody structures as a habitat, but also reed beds. The study is published in ...

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 ...