Wildfire destroys Mouse-tailed dormouse habitat
Wildfires threatened the only existing population of Roach’s mouse-tailed dormouse in Bulgaria this summer. Action is needed to save this dormouse for Europe’s fauna.
Categorie: Project
Is the marbled polecat in North Macedonia?
On the 6th of August 2022, Jeffrey Peereboom from the Habitat Foundation visited North Macedonia to meet Aleksandar Stojanov and Aleksandar Pavlov of the Macedonian Ecological Society. The visit, which…
Grant for Mouse-tailed dormouse project
The Irish National Parks and Wildlife Service, in the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage supports the research on Roach’s mouse-tailed dormouse (Myomimus roachi). In 2017 we started a…
In search of the marbled polecat
In Montenegro, the Wildlife Montenegro team is currently working on a variety of projects. One of these projects is about active participation in the network of Natura 2000 areas, financed…
To an Atlas of Ukrainian mammals
As part of the project ‘Mobilisation of biodiversity data from Ukraine to GBIF‘ of The Habitat Foundation and others more than 5,000 recordings of mammals in Ukraine from the years…
A lazy dormouse
Missing for almost 40 years the Mouse-tailed dormouse (Myomimus roachi Bate 1937) was rediscovered in 2017 when during a routine field survey a single specimen was caught. In the following…
Grant for Atlas update
The European Mammal Foundation, which underpins the EMMA2 project to prepare a second edition of the Atlas of European Mammals, has a small grants scheme to support data collection and…
Holohil radio transmitters for Mouse-tailed dormouse
For more than 35 years Holohil provides state-of-the-art radio-tracking equipment to wildlife researchers. Recently, the company donated 10 transmitters to the Mouse-tailed dormouse project in Bulgaria.
Bush bandits for Marbled polecat
The Marten Foundation donated 10 so-called bush bandits for research on the Marbled polecat in Montenegro.
Mustelids in the Balkans
The Habitat Foundation is setting up a platform to collate the knowledge about mustelids on the Balkan peninsula. The platform will be the place where researchers, ecologists, volunteers and enthusiasts…