30 Mouse-tailed dormice!
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.…
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Save the EU Water Framework Directive
Today, the European Mammal Foundation is a co-signatory, along with many organisations and individual scientists, to an open letter to the EU, asking for the Water Framework Directive (WFD) to…
Open letter to the European Parliament
The European Mammal Foundation has today joined with other European scientific and conservation organisations to call on the European Parliament to undertake a far-reaching reform of the Common Agriculture Policy.
International Dormouse Conference 2020
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…
European Mammal Conservation Network
Thriving populations of native European mammals, in a world where mammals and humans live together in harmony, that’s the vision of the European Mammal Conservation Network. On the 4th of…
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…
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…
Mapping Mammals to INform Development (MIND)
Time is running out… For centuries, observations about life on Earth have been collected. But it is going too slow. Many species will have disappeared even before we have found…
Equipment for mammal research and conservation in Eastern Europe
In 2015 a questionnaire of The Habitat Foundation among the mammal workers (organizations and individuals) in Eastern Europe revealed that there is a great need for field equipment. Almost the…
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…