Leigh Woods is home to a rare breeding programme helping to reintroduce endangered hazel dormice across the UK ...
Big-eyed and famously sleepy, the dormouse is a woodland and fairy tale icon, but it is a species in decline. Once widespread, the animals have now disappeared from 17 English counties.
Images can range from animal portraiture, action or behaviour ... Anton Trexler (Germany) peers up into the darkness as a dormouse pauses on a garden ladder. Dormice were frequent nocturnal ...
Known for their big eyes, and for being famously sleepy, the hazel dormouse species has declined nationally by 70% since 2000. Once widespread, the animals have disappeared from 20 English ...