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The Dormice site is dedicated to that most wonderful creature the Hazel Dormouse. The site contains information about the Hazel Dormouse, a download section for publications, videos and news.

We hope you find this site useful, please check back often as t content of this site will be updated with new information as soon as it is found.

It would be fantastic if you would like to contribute to the website with your own news and information and perhaps images, please use this link to send an email to the author of this site.

I am still refining some of the pages for this site, so some of the pages are just notes, if you would like to correct the information, donate new information that would be great. A small note on images, the site lacks images, so far I have two sources, the Forestry Commission and free to use images. If your picture is on here without permission – SORRY, please can I use it? Please! The site is not for profit, anything over my costs will be sent to Suffolk Wildlife Trust, so please may I use your image? If you would like to donate images I will of course add the correct accreditation to each and a link back to your site. Thanks, Neil.

Latest News

The Dormice take over the Mammal Society Web site!

Those clever little creatures have volunteered to administer the Mammal Society’s web site! They need your help, what would you like to see on the site? Take a look http://www.mammal.org.uk. There’s no prize for the best suggestion, only kudos that your idea is being used by the countries leading Mammal organisation. Post your suggestions here.

Forestry Commision – Volunteers wanted to help dormice box clever

Nature lovers are being invited to give rare dormice a helping hand in Chambers Farm Wood. Repairs have been carried out on nearly 60 wooden nesting boxes which the tree climbing creature uses to rear its young during summer and willing volunteers are needed to help erect them in the 360 hectare (900 acre) woodland, [...]

BBC Oxford – Is the Hazel Dormouse extinct in Oxfordshire?

The Hazel Dormouse was once widespread in the UK but is now endangered. The People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) and Natural England will attempt to highlight its plight with a treasure hunt. Locals are being asked to search their local woods for gnawed hazelnuts, a typical sign of the vulnerable species. PTES have hidden [...]

Devon Wildlife Trust – Devon Dormice Go Nuts Over Funding

Devon Wildlife Trust (DWT) has just received funding to help with conservation work to improve the lot of dormice at a number of its nature reserves. The £4986 grant from the Pennon Environment Fund will help the charity’s reserve officers to implement and enhance coppicing regimes at its Andrew’s Wood, Lady’s Wood, Scanniclift Copse, Sourton [...]

The Express – Super-Dormice are being bred to save species

By Geoff Maynard CONSEVATIONISTS working to increase the dwindling population of dormice are trying to produce a breed of supermice. They have been granted a special licence to collect some of the protected species from the wild to augment the bloodline of the captive breeding population. Over the winter, staff at Paignton Zoo in Devon [...]