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.…
You are invited to take part in the XIth International Dormice Conference 2020 in Svilengrad, Bulgaria. The conference will take place from September 14th until 18th, 2020. For more info…
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…
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 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…
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…
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).
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,…