Habitat

Deciduous woodland and thick, overgrown hedgerows. Thought to prefer mixed hazel coppice woodland which provides a varied diet throughout the year. However dormice are also found in other scrub and hedgerow habitats, and even conifer plantations.

Latest News

BBC News – Suffolk – Kiln Meadow in Ipswich ‘no longer for sale’

An Ipswich meadow, home to a large population of toads, will not be put up for sale again for housing, Ipswich Borough Council has announced. Developers had planned to build more than 100 homes on the 11-acre Kiln Meadow in Pinewood before planning permission expired last October. The council has now decided it will look [...]

Kiln Meadow Saved!

Ipswich Wildlife Group are delighted with the decision of Ipswich Borough Council’s Executive committee to revoke the decision to sell Kiln Meadow. IWG Chairman Ray Sidaway said: “The ‘Save Kiln Meadow’ campaign has been long and complicated. The low point was when the previous administration decided to sell the site last July without due consideration [...]

Suffolk Wildlife Trust says harvest mice need farmers’ help

Farmers are being asked to create more grass margins around fields to encourage harvest mice. The Suffolk Wildlife Trust (SWT) has been studying the tiny rodent to work out how to increase its numbers. They want to link up grassland, reed bed a riverbank habitats to allow the mice to thrive. Martha Meek, trust project [...]

Urgent! Save Kiln Meadow!

Save Kiln Meadow for the Dormice! IBC is trying to sell a strip of land on the outskirts of Ipswich,  the land is good habitat for many species and the borders and hedges of the land contain Dormice. Please sign the petition : http://petitions.ipswich.gov.uk/SaveKilnMeadow/ This whole area has a number of wildlife species that should [...]

Salisbury Journal – Join in the great hunt for nuts

  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 [...]