Go Behind The Scenes! Dormice Reintroduction June 2021

We were delighted to team up with various partners to release the 1000th hazel dormouse in Lancashire this month.

Thirty animals were released into a woodland in the Arnside and Silverdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (a nationally protected landscape covering parts of north Lancashire and south Cumbria). As always, this year’s reintroduction would not be possible without months of dedication from all organisations involved, including the Common Dormouse Captive Breeders Group (CDCBG), Wildwood Trust and ZSL (Zoological Society of London).

This year PTES worked with Natural England and the University of Cumbria, to release the captive-bred animals as part of the ‘Back On Our Map’ (BOOM) Project. Led by the University of Cumbria and Morecambe Bay Partnership and supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, BOOM is a multispecies, landscape scale project which aims to reinstate 10 locally threatened or extinct native species back into the area, including hazel dormice.

Get to know more about our hazel dormouse conservation work on our website www.ptes.org/campaigns/dormice.

Video credit to Jago Mill, Back on Our Map.

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