The Golden Great Nut Hunt
The People's Trust for Endangered Species,
along with Natural England, is launching the third Great Nut Hunt
to find out more about where dormice are across the country.
Hazel nuts, where available, are a favourite food of the
dormouse. Luckily for us dormice leave distinctive tooth marks when
they gnaw into the green hazel nuts, before eating the kernel and
discarding the shell to fall to the forest floor.
Thousands of volunteers took part in the first two nut hunts of
1993 and 2001, sending in hazel nuts from over 2,000 sites and
helping to identify almost 500 woodlands that had dormice present
across England and Wales.
Now we would like you to get out into the woods again and help
us find more nibbled nuts this autumn and winter.
Photo ©Eliana Sevianu
Survey Pack
CCW has produced a Welsh version of the Survey pack which you
can download from the Cymraeg side of this website.
Survey
Pack
you can download a survey pack and find out how to take part and
get nutting.