Keeping habitats connected: A tried and tested arboreal bridge for small mammals!
Southampton, England
Joined November 2018
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Let’s stay connected! We are merging our accounts - to keep up-to-date with our future bridge projects and all things #Animex, follow us over at @AnimexInt, we look forward to chatting with you there! 🐸
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Time for some morning cuteness! 😍🐾
These adorable dormice were spotted on a recent box check at National Dormousee Monitoring Project site, Haseley Wood on the Isle of Wight. #NDMP
📸 Selena Bone
Now is a great time to start thinking about how to manage your hedgerows in winter! Managing them cyclically is ideal to keep hedgerows nice and dense without taking off too much in any one year.
Winter is a great time to assess the structure and needs of your hedgerows. 🌳❄️
Download our free #HealthyHedgerows app which, in just 6 quick questions, will give instant advice on the management options that will help your hedgerow thrive.
👉 hedgerowsurvey.ptes.org/heal…
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Brilliant news! 🙌And shows that the #dormouse #reintroduction is working at least in the short term. There's still work to be done by local volunteers and local reserve managers before we can say this is an unqualified success but we're so pleased to see this important step!
Dormice reintroduced to the Arnside & Silverdale AONB have bred successfully with 13 young dormice found in a recent nest box survey.
This was carried out by licensed NE and @BoomCumbria staff who are training volunteers in safe handling of the species 🐭
#MyNationalLandscapes
ALT BOOM volunteer Charlie Fellows surveying an active adult dormouse. Photo by Jim Turner, Natural England
Excited to be at #ICOET conference this week. We'll be presenting on the Animex Wildlife Bridge for Dormice next week! #ICOET2021
It's #DormouseWeek and it's great to see all the successes and research that are helping dormice!
This video is our dormouse bridge in 2019 and shows a good example of how dormice use the bridge - they're great climbers and will use all parts of the bridge to move around!
#DormouseWeek is the best week! These reintroductions combined with habitat management are very important for dormouse populations. Thanks to our bridge partner @PTES for the fantastic conservation work they do!
It's been a busy and successful year for PTES and dormice, as earlier this year we released our 1000th hazel dormouse into the wild!
👉 Find out more about our reintroduction: ptes.org/1000th-dormouse-rel…
#DormouseWeek 🌰🐭
📸 Peter Byrne PA
Animex Bridge retweeted
Footprint tracking tunnels are rectangular tubes with trays inside, a sheet of paper and 2 inkpads. We're using them alongside wooden nest boxes to see if #dormice are around even when we don’t spot them!
#DormouseWeek 🌰🐭
@NaturalEngland
📸@BoomCumbria Jago Miller
We're thrilled to be included in this special issue on canopy bridges! They are still accepting more submissions for papers. We're excited to read about bridges from around the world!
We are editing a special issue in @FoliaPrimatol about canopy bridges to mitigate the impacts of linear infrastructure on arboreal animals.
Submissions are open!!
Please spread the word to your colleagues so we can advance our knowledge on this understudied topic.
Animex Bridge retweeted
When you design a #canopybridge you need to think in durable and resistant materials.
-> Understand why by watching this video with Capuchin monkeys crossings (Sapajus sp.)
Canopy bridge project in Cantareira State Park, SP, Brazil (#ViaFAUNA, Fábio Ferrão, Fundação Florestal)
Animex Bridge retweeted
Our hedgerows are a safe home for nature, providing food and linking together fragmented habitats. 🌳
More than 2,000 species call our hedgerows home.
That's why we need more, bigger and bushier hedgerows right across the country. 🦋
Sign the petition 👇takeaction.cpre.org.uk/page/…
Animex Bridge retweeted
Found my first wild #dormouse nest of the season in a #Nottinghamshire woodland. This one was low down in dense bramble along the edge of a footpath @PTES @NottsDormice @Nottswildlife #dormice #mammals
Animex Bridge retweeted
8 very healthy looking #dormice & a litter of young recorded during yesterday's monitoring session in a #Nottinghamshire woodland. We also recorded a wood mouse & a rare visitor to the boxes, a bank vole @PTES @Nottswildlife @Mammal_Society
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#HealthyHedgerows do it better! Every value that hedgerows provide, economically, ecologically and environmentally, is improved when a hedgerow is healthy. Health-check your hedgerows using our brand new app and get yours in top condition!
Download today hedgerowsurvey.ptes.org/heal…
Check out this great new app "Healthy Hedgerows" by @PTES to help people quickly assess their hedgerows and find out what type of management it needs!
Hedgerow mismanagement (particularly overcutting) is one of the biggest causes of declines and this is a great initiative.
Have you got hedgerows to be proud of?! Wild, rugged, bigger and more joined up?
We want you to show off the shaggy and 📣 sing your hedgerow's praises, as we believe #HealthyHedgerows can't be overstated!
Download our app hedgerowsurvey.ptes.org/heal… for a free rapid assessment 🌳
Sometimes Dormice find the oddest places to rest! 😴
Dormice are sleepy little creatures and have been known to find unusual places for their naps. 🐾
This incredibly cute #dormouse was found fast sleep curled up behind a gate! 😴
Have you found dormice in odd places? Let us know!
📸 Sharon Kelly
Congratulations to our bridge partner @PTES and their project partners on the 1000th Dormouse released as part of their reintroduction programme!
We've just reintroduced our 1000th hazel dormouse! #1000Dormice 🐭🎉
A milestone for conservation and a huge moment for hazel dormice in the UK.
Huge thanks to our partners @BoomCumbria @CumbriaUni @NaturalEngland @WildwoodTrust @OfficialZSL supported by @HeritageFundUK
Animex Bridge retweeted
We're thrilled to have released 15 captive-bred breeding pairs into Lancashire this week. Reintroductions and the long-term recovery of hazel #dormice wouldn't be possible without our exceptional team, partners, volunteers and supporters.
#1000Dormice
🎞️Rachel Owen
Check out this nice close-up video of Dormice feeding on a Bird Cherry. 🐭 Dormice need a variety of plant species to feed on throughout their active season and flowering or fruiting plants are especially valuable!
vimeo.com/557573396
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Take a look at this fantastic, very visual, article on many of the different types of wildlife crossings!
It's incredible to see growing awareness and excitement from the public about wildlife crossings, even for small animals.
nytimes.com/interactive/2021…