Picture by Clare Pengally. WILTSHIRE Wildlife Trust is encouraging people to help locate populations of hazel dormice in the county by looking for nibbled nuts.

This is the 21st anniversary of the National Dormouse Monitoring Programme and The People’s Trust for Endangered Species and Natural England have launched the third Great Nut Hunt this autumn to help them find out more about dormice across the whole country.

The hazel dormouse is Britain’s only native dormouse species and, although once widespread across Britain, their range has declined significantly over the last century due to changes in woodland management, farming practices, loss of hedgerows and fragmentation of woodland.

Picture by Clare Pengally.

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