One of Britain’s best loved, but most elusive mammals – the hazel dormouse – is back in the Yorkshire Dales National Park following a successful re-introduction project. It is 100 years since the creatures – made famous in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland – were last recorded in the Park.

In a joint bid by conservation organisations* to reverse a drastic population decline, 35 dormice were released into Freeholders’ Wood near Aysgarth in June this year.

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