#hazel dormice

[antiqueanimals]

La Vie des Animaux Illustrée. Written by Alfred Brehm. Illustration by Robert Kretschmer. 1869 French edition.

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Britain’s population of hazel dormice has halved since 2000, a report by the People’s Trust for Endangered Species warned. A quarter of Britain’s native mammals are at imminent risk of extinction, according to the scientists who have compiled the country’s first official Red List of endangered species.

Photograph: Clare Pengelly/PA

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From The Guardian:

Britain’s population of hazel dormice has halved since 2000, a report by the People’s Trust for Endangered Species warned. A quarter of Britain’s native mammals are at imminent risk of extinction, according to the scientists who have compiled the country’s first official Red List of endangered species. Photograph: Clare Pengelly/PA

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Big stethoscope, tiny mouse: Watch a rodent prep to go into the wild — The Washington Post

Hazel dormice are imperiled in Great Britain. But a years-long effort to rebuild their numbers holds hope.