A group of 10 hazel dormice were given a clean bill of health ahead of their release into the wild, the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) said. Footage released by ZSL shows veterinarians ...

Experts think hazel dormice are suffering from destruction of their habitats and 'poor management' of Britain's woodland and hedgerows, as well as a changing climate. The hazel dormouse is the UK ...

The dormouse is famously sleepy - hibernating for five months of the year Dormice have been released at a secret woodland location in a bid to boost Bedfordshire's only population of the mammals.

A project to boost biodiversity in a former plantation woodland has seen conservationists take some unusual measures to liven ...

Police raided a cannabis farm in Calabria, southern Italy, and found 235 frozen dormice, a favored mafia delicacy. The raid, on October 16th, revealed a stash of 235 frozen dormice alongside 700 ...

Mini rope bridges have been installed in one of England's ancient forests to help hazel dormice travel safely between treetops. Two 20m-long bridges have been built over a track in the Forest of Dean.

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 ...

Gloucestershire Live published the terrifying footage of a man wielding a machete during a "street fight" in Tredworth. Senior reporter, Kim Horton said the video "highlights what is reportedly ...

Research shows the number of hazel dormice in the UK has dropped from around 3.5 million to just 750,000 in the last 27 years. Currently their conservation status is classed as vulnerable ...

A WEST Dorset nature reserve is being expanded to encourage rare and threatened wildflowers to grow. Ryewater Farm Nature ...

None of those shapes are in the Highway Code," said one parent. And finally, the moving story of four orphaned hazel dormice touched the hearts of many readers. Secret World in Somerset described ...