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Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust is celebrating the return of one of the UK’s most cherished and threatened woodland mammals, the hazel dormouse, to Swanpond Copse Nature Reserve near Ryde.

This marks the first confirmed sighting of this iconic species since 2018.

During a recent dormouse survey, Trust ecologists were thrilled to discover a fresh dormouse nest – and inside, 2 sleepy dormice nestled together, with a third recorded later that day. With no confirmed dormice seen at the reserve for the past 6 years, this rediscovery is a major conservation milestone.

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