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…
You are invited to take part in the XIth International Dormouse Conference 2022 in Svilengrad, Bulgaria. The conference will take place from May 9th till 13th, 2022. For more info…
The Dutch Mammal Society donated 50 Longworth live traps to Ukrainian mammalogists.
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…
Wildlife Montenegro received 50 Longworth live traps from the Dutch Mammal Society for their research on the distribution of small mammals in Montenegro. Situated in the Balkan, Montenegro hosts a…
The IUCN Red List has today surpassed 120,000 species, with 120,372 species now assessed. Of these, 32,441 are threatened with extinction. European Hamster and North Atlantic Right Whale moved to…
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.
The Mouse-tailed dormouse is one of the rarest mammals in the Western Palearctic. Because of its small distribution area, it is categorised as vulnerable in the IUCN Red List. It…
The Dutch Mammal Society donated 50 Longworth live traps to mammal researchers in North Macedonia. A small questionnaire among mammal workers (organisations and individuals) in Eastern Europe in 2016 revealed…
Last summer, during fieldwork in SE Bulgaria, 30 Mouse-tailed dormice were caught in live traps. Quite a lot for a species that was thought to be almost extinct in Bulgaria.…