A new species for the Greek fauna
While analysing the content of owl pellets from the district of Evros (Greece) researchers stumbled upon a very rare species: Myomimus roachi or the Mouse-tailed dormouse. The first recording of…
Categorie: Species groups
Field equipment for researchers in Bosnia-Herzegovina
As part of the capacity-building campaign in Eastern Europe, researchers in Bosnia & Herzegovina received field equipment from Dutch donors this summer. The equipment was handed over during the summer…
The first Mouse-tailed dormice of the year are caught
The new nest boxes were just placed and the first Mouse-tailed dormouse was already found in one of them. A few days later three more animals were found in the…
Atlas bats of Albania
Albania published a Bat Atlas. For each of the 32 species, it shows maps with distribution data collected until November 2016. The maps have been built upon the division of…
Small Mammal Camp in Ukraine 2019
The European Mammal Foundation initiated the revision of the Atlas of European Mammals. For this second atlas the area covered is expanded into countries where hardly any information about the…
PTES finances Roach’s mouse-tailed dormouse
The People’s Trust for Endangered Species lives up to its name. It sponsors one of Europe’s most endangered mammal species, the Mouse-tailed dormouse (Myomimus roachi).
Mammals of Dobrudja, Romania
At least forty-two species of mammals where registered during a survey in the Danube delta and the steppe area south of the delta. Among others were Wild cat, Southern vole,…
New mole species described
Until recently, it was assumed that 264 mammal species live in Europe, but in May 2018 a new species of mole has been described and the number rose to 265.…
Small mammal survey in Macedonia
The Balkan Mammal Network got into action last Summer. From 30.07.2018 to 12.08.2018, Dime Melovski from the Macedonian Ecological Society and Nedko Nedyalkov from the Bulgarian National Museum of Natural…
International Bat Night
This will be the 22nd year that nature conservation agencies and NGOs from across Europe organise the International Bat Night. Don’t miss it. This is your chance to see bats…