Dormice, whose name is thought to come from the French word, dormir, meaning 'to sleep', spend three quarters of their lives snoozing.

flowers, fruit and insects. She will be paired up with a mate and it’s hoped that they will produce lots of offspring that can be released at future reintroduction sites.” Ian White, dormouse ...

Dormice need a tangle of woodland understory to move around and feed The 1,000th captive-bred hazel dormouse has been released into the wild in a UK-wide reintroduction scheme for these threatened ...

Leigh Woods, which is located to the south west of Bristol, has been selected as one of the locations for a dormouse ...